Yeleazar Meletinsky
Eleazar Moiseevich Meletinskii (also Meletinsky or Meletinskij; Russian: Елеаза́р Моисе́евич Мелети́нский; October 22 1918, Kharkiv – December 17, 2005, Moscow) was a Russian scholar famous for his seminal studies of folklore, literature, philology and the history and theory of narrative; he was one of the major figures of Russian academia in those fields.
He was Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Russian State University for the Humanities for several years until his death.
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