Yeleazar Meletinsky

Deceased Person

1918 – 2005

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Who was Yeleazar Meletinsky?

Eleazar Moiseevich Meletinskii was a Russian scholar famous for his seminal studies of folklore, literature, philology and the history and theory of narrative; he was one of the major figures of Russian academia in those fields.

He was Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Russian State University for the Humanities for several years until his death.

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Born
Oct 22, 1918
Also known as
  • Eleazar Meletinskii
Died
2005

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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