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Lotman
Lotman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Aleksei Lotman (born 1960), Estonian biologist, son of Juri Lotman * Herb Lotman (1933–2014), U.S. food industry magnate * Juri Lotman (1922–1993), Russian formalist critic, semiotician, and culturologist * Mihhail Lotman Mihhail Lotman (born September 2, 1952 in Leningrad) is an Estonian literature researcher and politician, son of Juri Lotman and Zara Mints. Mihhail Lotman's research fields include general semiotics and semiotics of culture as well as text theo ... (born 1952), son of Juri Lotman, Estonian literature researcher and politician {{surname, Lotman Surnames of Jewish origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juri Lotman
Juri Lotman (russian: Ю́рий Миха́йлович Ло́тман; 28 February 1922 – 28 October 1993) was a prominent Russian-Estonian literary scholar, semiotician, and historian of Russian culture, who worked at the University of Tartu. He was elected a member of the British Academy (1977), Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (1987), Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1989) and Estonian Academy of Sciences (1990). He was a founder of the Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School. The number of his printed works exceeds 800 titles. His archive (which is now kept at the University of Tallinn and at the Tartu University Library) which includes his correspondence with a number of Russian and Western intellectuals, is immense. Biography Juri Lotman was born in the Jewish intellectual family of lawyer Mikhail Lotman and Sorbonne-educated dentist Aleksandra Lotman in Petrograd, Russia. His elder sister Inna Obraztsova graduated from Leningrad Conservatory and became a composer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herb Lotman
Herb Lotman (October 9, 1933 – May 8, 2014) was a food industry magnate who started out as a truck driver and grew his business, Keystone Foods, to one of the largest worldwide beef and chicken suppliers in the world. He is best known for developing products and processes for McDonald's (including Chicken McNuggets), and for his extensive involvement in charitable and philanthropic activities in Philadelphia and other parts of the United States. Personal life Lotman was born in Philadelphia on October 9, 1933, the son of a butcher. Lotman had two children with his wife Karen. He died in Philadelphia at age 80 following complications from heart failure. Business career Lotman began his working career in his family's beef wholesale business. He established Keystone Foods, which was instrumental in developing the use of mass-produced frozen burgers in the late 1960s, and supplied these as well as chicken and fish products to McDonald's. In the 1980s he was the inventor of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksei Lotman
Aleksei Lotman (also known as Alex Lotman and Aleks Lotman; born 6 May 1960 in Leningrad) is an Estonian biologist, environmentalist and politician. From 2010 to 2011 Lotman served as the leader of political party Estonian Greens. From 2007 to 2011, Lotman was a member of Estonian parliament Riigikogu, representing the Estonian Greens. He was also leader of the parliamentary group for Tibet. In the 2011 election, the Greens lost all their parliamentary representation. Since then he has worked for the Estonian Fund for Nature. He was awarded the Order of the National Coat of Arms, 5th Class, by the President of Estonia on 6 February 2006. Aleksei Lotman graduated from the Tartu Miina Härma Secondary School No 2 in 1978, and the Tartu State University as a biologist in 1985. 1991–2000, Lotman served as the vice director of the Matsalu National Park. Personal life Alex Lotman is the son of literary scholar, semiotician, and cultural historian Juri Lotman and literary scientis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mihhail Lotman
Mihhail Lotman (born September 2, 1952 in Leningrad) is an Estonian literature researcher and politician, son of Juri Lotman and Zara Mints. Mihhail Lotman's research fields include general semiotics and semiotics of culture as well as text theory and history of Russian literature. Lotman was a member of the board of Russian Cultural Society in Estonia from 1988 to 1994. Lotman is a professor of semiotics and literary theory at the Tallinn University and also a member of a research group on semiotics at the University of Tartu. Lotman was awarded the Medal of the Order of the White Star on February 2, 2001. In recent years, Lotman has been active in politics, serving as Member of Riigikogu for the conservative Res Publica Party. In 2010, Lotman defended Sofi Oksanen Sofi-Elina Oksanen (born 7 January 1977) is a Finnish writer and playwright. Oksanen has published six novels, of which "Purge" has gained the widest recognition. She has received several international and dome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
