About Thomas G. Winner
Lived 1917 – 2004 (aged 86). Thomas G. Winner was an American philosopher and slavist.
Thomas Gustav Winner (3 May 1917, Prague – 20 April 2004, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American slavist and semiotician.
At Brown University, together with Robert Scholes, he established the first American semiotics center.
He was a well-known Chekhov specialist, and a proponent of Tartu-Moscow semiotics school. He graduated from Harvard University (MA) and Columbia University (PhD).
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Who was Thomas G. Winner?
American slavist (1917–2004)
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Thomas G. Winner was born on 3 May 1917 in Prague.
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Thomas G. Winner died on 20 April 2004 in Cambridge.
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Thomas G. Winner was a philosopher and slavist.
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Thomas G. Winner was American.
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