Vladimir Propp

Vladimir Propp
Vladimir Propp in 1928
Born
Hermann Waldemar Propp

(1895-04-29)29 April 1895
St. Petersburg, Russia
Died22 August 1970(1970-08-22) (aged 75)
Leningrad, Soviet Union
Occupation
SubjectRussian folklore

Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp (Russian: Владимир Яковлевич Пропп; 29 April [O.S. 17 April] 1895 – 22 August 1970) was a Russian and Soviet folklorist and scholar who analysed the basic structural elements of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest, irreducible structural units.

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