PSYCHOLOGIST

Lev Vygotsky

1896 - 1934

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Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky (Russian: Лев Семёнович Выготский, IPA: [vɨˈɡotskʲɪj]; Belarusian: Леў Сямёнавіч Выгоцкі; November 17 [O.S. November 5] 1896 – June 11, 1934) was a Russian and Soviet psychologist, best known for his work on psychological development in children and creating the framework known as cultural-historical activity theory. After his early death, his books and research were banned in the Soviet Union until Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, with a first collection of major texts published in 1956. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lev Vygotsky is the 8th most popular psychologist (down from 7th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Belarus and the most popular Belarusian Psychologist.

Lev Vygotsky is most famous for his theory of the Zone of Proximal Development.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Lev Vygotsky ranks 8 out of 235. Before him are Carl Jung, Jean Piaget, Erich Fromm, Alfred Adler, Abraham Maslow, and Wilhelm Wundt. After him are Jacques Lacan, Viktor Frankl, Erik Erikson, John Dewey, William James, and Carl Rogers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Lev Vygotsky ranks 5. Before him are F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wallis Simpson, Jean Piaget, and Georgy Zhukov. After him are André Breton, Imre Nagy, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Tristan Tzara, Roman Jakobson, Antonin Artaud, and Gerty Cori. Among people deceased in 1934, Lev Vygotsky ranks 3. Before him are Marie Curie, and Paul von Hindenburg. After him are Alexander I of Yugoslavia, Edward Elgar, Fritz Haber, Ernst Röhm, Raymond Poincaré, Albert I of Belgium, Nestor Makhno, Kurt von Schleicher, and Sergey Kirov.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Lev Vygotsky ranks 3 out of 368. Before him are Marc Chagall (1887), and Shimon Peres (1923). After him are Alexander Lukashenko (1954), Menachem Begin (1913), Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877), Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746), Chaim Weizmann (1874), Andrei Gromyko (1909), Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732), Simon Kuznets (1901), and Chaim Soutine (1893).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Belarus

Among psychologists born in Belarus, Lev Vygotsky ranks 1. 

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