Mihhail Lotman
Mihhail Lotman (born September 2, 1952 in Leningrad) is an Estonian literature researcher and politician, son of Yuri Lotman and Zara Mints.
Mihhail Lotman's research fields include general semiotics and semiotics of culture as well as text theory and history of Russian literature. Lotman was a member of the board of Russian Cultural Society in Estonia from 1988 to 1994. Lotman is a professor of semiotics and literary theory at the Tallinn University and also a member of a research group on semiotics at the University of Tartu.
Lotman was awarded the Medal of the Order of the White Star on February 2, 2001.[1] In recent years, Lotman has been active in politics, serving as Member of Riigikogu for the conservative Res Publica Party.
In 2010, Lotman defended Sofi Oksanen's novel Puhdistus against its opponents in Estonia.[2]
References
- ↑ "Estonian State Decorations: Bearers of decorations". president.ee. Retrieved 1 December 2010.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ http://www.epl.ee/artikkel/585486
External links
 |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to [[commons:Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 506: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).|Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 506: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).]]. |
- Mihhail Lotman's homepage (Estonian)
- University of Tartu page
- Estonian Research Portal entry
- List of publications
 |
This biographical article about a semiotician is a stub. You can help Infogalactic by expanding it. |
- Pages with broken file links
- Commons category link from Wikidata
- Articles with Estonian-language external links
- Estonian scholars
- Russian philologists
- Linguists from Estonia
- Estonian people of Russian descent
- Estonian Jews
- Russian Jews
- People from Saint Petersburg
- 1952 births
- Living people
- Recipients of the Order of the White Star, Medal Class
- University of Tartu faculty
- University of Tartu alumni
- Estonian semioticians
- Members of the Riigikogu
- Tallinn University faculty
- Russians in Estonia
- Semiotics stubs
- Linguist stubs
