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Nikolay Lossky

1870 - 1965

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Nikolay Onufriyevich Lossky (; 6 December [O.S. 24 November] 1870 – 24 January 1965), also known as N. O. Lossky, was a Russian philosopher, representative of Russian idealism, intuitionist epistemology, personalism, libertarianism, ethics and axiology (value theory). He gave his philosophical system the name intuitive-personalism. He spent his working life in St. Petersburg and, after his exile by the Bolsheviks in 1922, in Prague and New York. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolay Lossky is the 923rd most popular philosopher (down from 899th in 2019), the 85th most popular biography from Latvia (down from 75th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Latvian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Nikolay Lossky ranks 923 out of 1,267. Before him are Sengzhao, Heinrich Khunrath, Ramiro Ledesma Ramos, Abu al-Hassan al-Amiri, Martin Lings, and J. M. E. McTaggart. After him are Sopater of Apamea, Antipater of Tarsus, Hermogenes of Tarsus, Bahya ibn Paquda, Ajita Kesakambali, and Erich Neumann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Nikolay Lossky ranks 93. Before him are Charles Tournemire, Hilaire Belloc, Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, Princess Maria Theresa of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, Francisco S. Carvajal, and Osachi Hamaguchi. After him are John Paine, Édouard Le Roy, William J. Seymour, Ferdynand Ruszczyc, Joseph Strauss, and Johan Ludwig Mowinckel. Among people deceased in 1965, Nikolay Lossky ranks 100. Before him are Arthur Holmes, Ellen Church, Linda Darnell, Árpád Szakasits, Fred Quimby, and Jānis Balodis. After him are E. E. Smith, Laureano Gómez, Maria Dąbrowska, Vittorio Jano, Georges Vantongerloo, and Clemente Micara.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Nikolay Lossky ranks 85 out of 323. Before him are Alexander von Keyserling (1815), Vizma Belševica (1931), Lūcija Garūta (1902), Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven (1899), Georg August Schweinfurth (1836), and Jānis Balodis (1881). After him are Yevgeny Miller (1867), Yury Tynyanov (1894), Kristjan Jaak Peterson (1801), Lina Stern (1878), Eduard Totleben (1818), and Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter (1809).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Latvia

Among philosophers born in Latvia, Nikolay Lossky ranks 5. Before him are Isaiah Berlin (1909), Nicolai Hartmann (1882), Abraham Isaac Kook (1865), and Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903).

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