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== Biography == Vladimir Propp was born on 29 April 1895 in [[Saint Petersburg]] to an assimilated Russian family of [[Germans|German]] descent. His parents, Yakov Philippovich Propp and Anna-Elizaveta Fridrikhovna Propp (née Beisel), were [[Volga Germans|Volga German]] wealthy peasants from [[Saratov Governorate]]. He attended [[Saint Petersburg State University|Saint Petersburg University]] (1913–1918), majoring in Russian and German [[philology]].<ref name="Propp, ix" >Propp, Vladimir. "Introduction." ''Theory and History of Folklore.'' Ed. Anatoly Liberman. University of Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 1984. pg ix</ref> Upon graduation he taught [[Russian language|Russian]] and [[German language|German]] at a secondary school and then became a college teacher of German. His ''Morphology of the Folktale'' was published in Russian in 1928. Although it represented a breakthrough in both [[folkloristics]] and [[morphology (folkloristics)|morphology]] and influenced [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]] and [[Roland Barthes]], it was generally unnoticed in the West until it was translated in 1958. His morphology is used in [[media literacy|media education]] and has been applied to narrative in literature, theatre, film, television series, and games; however, Propp applied it specifically to the wonder tale (or [[fairy tale]]). In 1932, Propp became a member of [[Leningrad University]] (formerly St. Petersburg University) faculty. After 1938, he chaired the Department of Folklore until it became part of the Department of Russian Literature. Propp remained a faculty member until his death in 1970.<ref name="Propp, ix" />
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