Date of birth
18 Oct 1894
133 years ago at
Rezhitsa, Russian Empire [now Rēzekne, Latvia]
Also Known As
- Ю́рий Никола́евич Тыня́нов
- Yury Nikolaevich Tynyanov
- Yuri Tynyanov
- Ю. Тынянов
Yury Tynyanov
Yury Nikolaevich Tynyanov (1894–1943) was a Soviet writer, literary critic, translator, scholar and screenwriter. He was an authority on Pushkin and an important member of the Russian Formalist school.
Biography
In 1928 he wrote, together with linguist Roman Jakobson, an influential work titled 'Theses on Language', as well as works of historical fiction, such as 'Lieutenant Kijé' and one of the central texts of Russian formalist literary production, 'The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar'.
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