Thomas Gustav Winner (3 May 1917, Prague – 20 April 2004, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American slavist and semiotician.Zezima, Katie 2004. Thomas Winner, 86, Scholar Who Escaped From Nazi Europe. New York Times, April 29.
At Brown University, together with Robert Scholes, he established the first American semiotics center.
He was a well-known Chekhov specialist, and a proponent of Tartu-Moscow semiotics school. He graduated from Harvard University (MA) and Columbia University (PhD).
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