Yury Tynyanov (1894- 1943)

• Jewish Latvian
• Published first work in 1921
• Published Theses on Language in 1928 with Roman Jakobson
  • basic foundations from that book for Formalism
• He also wrote historical novels to which he applied his theories
• Formalist Theory
• Leutenant Kije/Young Vitushishnikov: Two Novellas
• Died of multiple sclerosis