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Vladimir Propp

Vladimir Propp
Vladimir Propp in 1928
Vladimir Propp in 1928
BornHermann Waldemar Propp
29 April 1895
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died22 August 1970(1970-08-22) (aged 75)
Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR
OccupationFolklorist, scholar
NationalityRussian, Soviet
SubjectFolklore of Russia, folklore

Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp (Russian: Владимир Яковлевич Пропп; 29 April [O.S. 17 April] 1895 – 22 August 1970) was a 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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