![]() ![]() In 1932, Propp became a member of Leningrad University (formerly St. His morphology is used in media education and has been applied to other types of narrative, be it in literature, theatre, film, television series, games, etc., although Propp applied it specifically to the wonder of fairy tale. Although it represented a breakthrough in both folkloristics and morphology and influenced Claude Lévi-Strauss and Roland Barthes, it was generally unnoticed in the West until it was translated in 1958. His Morphology of the Folktale was published in Russian in 1928. Upon graduation he taught Russian and German at a secondary school and then became a college teacher of German. He attended Saint Petersburg University (1913–1918), majoring in Russian and German philology. His parents, Yakov Philippovich Propp and Anna-Elizaveta Fridrikhovna Propp (née Beisel), were Volga German wealthy peasants from Saratov Governorate. Vladimir Propp was born on 29 April 1895 in Saint Petersburg to an assimilated Russian family of German descent. ![]() ![]() Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp ( Russian: Владимир Яковлевич Пропп 29 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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