Famous life · 19.08.1964
Lotman's summer school at Kääriku
Juri Lotman came to Soviet Estonia in 1950 and stayed in Tartu for the rest of his life, because academic life there was freer than in Russia. From 1960 to 1977 he headed the university's department of Russian literature. In the early 1960s he made contact with a group of structuralist linguists in Moscow and invited them to a summer school. It was held at Kääriku, in the hills near Otepää, from 19 to 29 August 1964. The group that met at Kääriku grew into the Tartu Moscow school of semiotics. Its journal, Sign Systems Studies, was founded the same year and is now the oldest semiotics journal in the world.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
Juri Lotman tuli Eestisse 1950. aastal ja töötas elu lõpuni Tartus, sest siinsed akadeemilised ringkonnad olid Venemaaga võrreldes vabamad. Aastatel 1960–1977 juhatas ta Tartu ülikooli vene kirjanduse kateedrit. 1960. aastate algul sõlmis ta sidemed Moskva strukturalistlike keeleteadlaste rühmaga ja kutsus nad suvekooli. See toimus Otepää kõrgustikul Käärikul 19.–29. augustini 1964. Käärikul kokku tulnud seltskonnast kasvas Tartu-Moskva semiootikakoolkond. Samal aastal asutatud ajakiri „Trudy po znakovym sistemam” (Sign Systems Studies) on nüüd maailma vanim semiootikaajakiri.
Source: English Wikipedia: Juri Lotman; Estonian Wikipedia: Juri Lotman. ↗