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P. D. Ouspensky

1878 - 1947

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Pyotr Demyanovich Uspensky (Russian: Пётр Демьянович Успенский; 5 March 1878 – 2 October 1947), known in English as P. D. Ouspensky, was a Russian philosopher and esotericist known for his expositions of the early work of the Greek-Armenian teacher of esoteric doctrine George Gurdjieff. He met Gurdjieff in Moscow in 1915, and was associated with the ideas and practices originating with Gurdjieff from then on. He taught ideas and methods based in the Gurdjieff system for 25 years in England and the United States, although he separated from Gurdjieff personally in 1924, for reasons that are explained in the last chapter of his book In Search of the Miraculous. Ouspensky studied the Gurdjieff system directly under Gurdjieff's own supervision for a period of ten years, from 1915 to 1924. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. P. D. Ouspensky is the 546th most popular philosopher (down from 473rd in 2019), the 511th most popular biography from Russia (down from 437th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Russian Philosopher.

P. D. Ouspensky is most famous for his book, "In Search of the Miraculous," in which he shares his personal experiences with the writings of G. I. Gurdjieff and his system of self-development.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, P. D. Ouspensky ranks 546 out of 1,267. Before him are Annemarie Schimmel, Ammonius Hermiae, Salomon Maimon, Luis de Molina, Albert of Saxony, and Karl Leonhard Reinhold. After him are Gersonides, Georg Henrik von Wright, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Clitomachus, William of Champeaux, and Crantor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, P. D. Ouspensky ranks 49. Before him are Marcel Grossmann, Arthur Scherbius, Abdelaziz of Morocco, Georg Kaiser, Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria, and Stepan Shaumian. After him are Léon Werth, Duchess Marie Gabrielle in Bavaria, Alfréd Hajós, Slavko Kvaternik, Boris Kustodiev, and Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord. Among people deceased in 1947, P. D. Ouspensky ranks 63. Before him are Franz Böhme, Franz Seldte, Alfredo Casella, Franz Ritter von Epp, Dorothea Binz, and Hermine Reuss of Greiz. After him are Victor Serge, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Slavko Kvaternik, Franz Xaver Schwarz, Władysław Raczkiewicz, and Ludwig Fischer.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, P. D. Ouspensky ranks 511 out of 3,761. Before him are Salawat Yulayev (1754), Vyacheslav Tikhonov (1928), Viktor Suvorov (1947), Martiros Saryan (1880), Şehsuvar Sultan (1682), and Hadji Murad (1795). After him are Vasily Shukshin (1929), Vasily Dokuchaev (1846), Igor Ivanov (1945), Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia (1850), Afanasy Nikitin (1500), and Grigory Orlov (1734).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Russia

Among philosophers born in Russia, P. D. Ouspensky ranks 12. Before him are Alexandre Kojève (1902), Johann Georg Hamann (1730), Alexandre Koyré (1892), Ivan Ilyin (1883), Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700), and Sergei Bulgakov (1871). After him are Yuri Lotman (1922), Pyotr Lavrov (1823), Aleksey Khomyakov (1804), Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov (1829), Nikolai Amosov (1913), and Volin (1882).

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