The Most Famous
Philosophers from Lithuania
This page contains a list of the greatest Lithuanians Philosophers. The pantheon dataset contains 1,267 Philosophers, 2 of which were born in Lithuania. This makes Lithuania the birth place of the 52nd most number of Philosophers behind Armenia and Cyprus.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Lithuanians Philosophers of all time. This list of famous Lithuanians Philosophers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Emmanuel Levinas (1906 - 1995)
With an HPI of 77.38, Emmanuel Levinas is the most famous Lithuanians Philosopher. biography has been translated into 50 different languages on wikipedia.
Emmanuel Levinas (born Emanuelis Levinas ; French: [ɛmanɥɛl levinas]; 12 January 1906 – 25 December 1995) was a French philosopher of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry who is known for his work within Jewish philosophy, existentialism, and phenomenology, focusing on the relationship of ethics to metaphysics and ontology.
2. Abram Deborin (1881 - 1963)
With an HPI of 55.89, Abram Deborin is the 2nd most famous Lithuanians Philosopher. biography has been translated into 18 different languages.
Abram Moiseyevich Deborin (Ioffe) (Russian: Абра́м Моисе́евич Дебо́рин (Ио́ффе); 16 June [O.S. 4 June] 1881, Upyna, Kovno Governorate – 8 March 1963, Moscow) was a Soviet Marxist philosopher and academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1929). Deborin oscillated between The Bolshevik and Menshevik factions of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, before settling with the Bolsheviks and enjoying a long career as a philosopher in the Soviet Union. Although this career suffered under Stalin, he lived to see his works republished when the Soviet Union was led by Nikita Khrushchev.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Lithuanians philosophers born between 1881 and 1906. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Lithuanians philosophers include Emmanuel Levinas, and Abram Deborin.
