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The President of the Republic greeted semioticians02.03.2002
Tonight in the Knighthood House at Toompea, President Arnold Rüütel greeted the participants of the international semiotics congress highlighting Juri Lotman's outstanding merits to both the world and our national culture.
The Head of State noted that even in those times, when Estonia was almost unknown to Europe and the rest of the world, the name of Juri Lotman was well known throughout. "He was a great mind, sometimes called the Einstein of Estonia by his colleagues," the President said. "In the Soviet time, the publications of Juri Lotman were almost the only hard currency that the Tartu University Library could exchange for monographs written by the top researchers of other countries to enrich its funds."
The Head of State highlighted as a merit of Juri Lotman that he, also in the atmosphere of mental oppression forced on Estonia, had proclaimed the primacy of culture as a prerequisite of human existence. "Lotman's theories also emphasized the necessity of national cultures as a prerequisite for the diversity of world culture," President Rüütel noted.
The International Congress "Cultural Semiotics, Cultural Mechanisms, Boundaries and Identities", that ended today, was dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Academician Juri Lotman.
Press Service of the Office of the President Estonian
Kadriorg, March 2, 2002
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