Professor of the European University George Levinton died
Soviet and Russian literary critic, folklorist, candidate of philological sciences, professor of the Department of Anthropology of the European University in St. Petersburg Georgy Levinton died on November 14 in St. Petersburg on the eve of his 78th birthday, his family told TASS.
Soviet and Russian literary critic, folklorist, candidate of philological sciences, professor of the Department of Anthropology of the European University in St. Petersburg Georgy Levinton died on November 14 in St. Petersburg on the eve of his 78th birthday, his family told TASS.
“Died today at home in St. Petersburg”, — said the Agency interlocutor.
According to her, the cause of death was cancer.
RBC sent a request to the European University in St. Petersburg.
Levinton was born on November 15, 1948 in Leningrad. In 1971 he graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Leningrad State University, in 1989 he defended his thesis. He worked at the Institute of Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, later transformed into the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkameru). Since 1996, Levinton taught at the European University in St. Petersburg, where he became a professor in the Department of Ethnology, now anthropology. He studied Russian and Slavic folklore, literature, semiotics and linguistics.
