A. J. Greimas

Marie-Eve Ritz (University of Western Australia)

Ed. by Tim Unwin, University of Bristol
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.07: French Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (Universidad de Antioquia), Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Patrick ffrench (King's College London), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck, University of London), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Sinan Richards (King's College London), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

Born 9 Apr 1917
Died 27 Mar 1992
Activity 1937-1992

Places

Born in Russia
Active in France; Lithuania

Activities

Primary

Theorist/ Philosopher of language

Resources

Algirdas Julius Greimas was born in Tula (Russia) on March 9, 1917. His parents were Lithuanian, and returned to their home country after Lithuania declared its independence in 1918. Greimas completed his secondary schooling at the Rygiškių Jonas High School in Marijampole and graduated in 1934. He then studied law at Kaun’s Vytautas Magnus University and obtained a grant from the Lithuanian Ministry of Education to study in France. There, he obtained a degree in letters, after studying language and dialectology in Grenoble, a period during which he also became interested in the Middle Ages. This interest led him to conduct some research on Franco-Provençale dialectology under the supervision of A. Durafour. At t…

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Citation: Ritz, Marie-Eve. "A. J. Greimas". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 02 December 2007 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1873, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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