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| 1917 births | |
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Greimas studied law in Lithuania, and linguistics in Grenoble ( 1936 - 1939 ). In 1939 he returned to Lithuania for his military service. In 1944 he returned to France, and in 1949 he received his PhD from the Sorbonne . He lectured at the universities of Ankara, Istanbul, Poitiers and Alexandria. While in Alexandria he met Roland Barthes with whom he maintained a close relation. He was a professor at the Social Sciences Postgraduate Studies School in Paris. From 1965 on, he headed semiotic-linguistic research in Paris, laying the foundations for the Paris School Of Semiotics . Greimas later began researching and reconstructing Lithuanian mythology basing his work on the methods of Georges Dumézil , Claude Lévi-Strauss and Marcel Detienne . His results were published as ''Of Gods and Men'' ( 1979 ) and ''In Search of National Memory'' ( 1990 ). |
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