Algirdas Julien Greimas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Algirdas Julien Greimas

Lithuanian-French linguist

Date of Birth: 09-Mar-1917

Place of Birth: Tula, Tula Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 27-Feb-1992

Profession: university teacher, philosopher, linguist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Algirdas Julien Greimas (French: [algi?das ?ylj?~ g??mas]; born Algirdas Julius Greimas; 9 March 1917 – 27 February 1992), was a Lithuanian literary scientist who wrote most of his body of work in French while living in France.
Greimas is known among other things for the Greimas Square (le carré sémiotique).
He is, along with Roland Barthes, considered the most prominent of the French semioticians.
With his training in structural linguistics, he added to the theory of signification and laid the foundations for the Parisian school of semiotics.
Among Greimas's major contributions to semiotics are the concepts of isotopy, the actantial model, the narrative program, and the semiotics of the natural world.
He also researched Lithuanian mythology and Proto-Indo-European religion, and was influential in semiotic literary criticism.