Thomas G. Winner

Thomas Gustav Winner (3 May 1917, Prague – 20 April 2004, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an eminent American slavist and semiotician.[1]

At Brown University, he established the first American semiotics center.

He was a well-known Chekhov specialist, and a proponent of Tartu-Moscow semiotics school.

Notes

  1. Zezima, Katie 2004. Thomas Winner, 86, Scholar Who Escaped From Nazi Europe. New York Times, April 29.


gollark: So why do you DISAGREE with VEGETARIANISM?
gollark: (or maybe I'm only ironically a vegetarian and instead I eat fungi)
gollark: (I mean, in reality, I'm a vegetarian, but I had to say it)
gollark: I eat fishen and beefen.
gollark: You said you eat gecki, which is the plural, silly.
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