Yeleazar Meletinsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Yeleazar Meletinsky

Russian academic (1918-2005)

Date of Birth: 22-Oct-1918

Place of Birth: Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 16-Dec-2005

Profession: university teacher, literary critic, philologist, literary historian, cultural historian, mythographer

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Eleazar Moiseevich Meletinskii (also Meletinsky or Meletinskij; Russian: ??????´? ?????´???? ??????´?????; 22 October 1918, Kharkiv – 17 December 2005, Moscow) 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.