PHILOSOPHER

Sergei Bulgakov

1871 - 1944

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Sergei Nikolayevich Bulgakov (Russian: Серге́й Никола́евич Булга́ков, IPA: [sʲɪrˈɡʲej nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪdʑ bʊlˈɡakəf]; 28 July [O.S. 16 July] 1871 – 13 July 1944) was a Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, and economist. Orthodox scholar David Bentley Hart has named Bulgakov "the greatest systematic theologian of the twentieth century." Father Sergei Bulgakov also served as a spiritual father and confessor to Mother Maria Skobtsova (who was canonized a saint by the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate on 16 January 2004). Sergei Bulgakov is best known for his development of a theological system centered on Sophia, the Wisdom of God. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sergei Bulgakov is the 515th most popular philosopher (up from 554th in 2019), the 467th most popular biography from Russia (up from 527th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Russian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Sergei Bulgakov ranks 515 out of 1,267. Before him are Axel Honneth, A. J. Ayer, Kenneth Waltz, Valentinus, Thomas Nagel, and Johann Christoph Gottsched. After him are Michel Serres, Gilbert Ryle, Vittorino da Feltre, Jean Améry, Karl Löwith, and Huiyuan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Sergei Bulgakov ranks 35. Before him are Leonid Andreyev, Lyonel Feininger, Ernst Zermelo, Willem Mengelberg, Danilo, Crown Prince of Montenegro, and Nicolae Iorga. After him are Princess Hélène of Orléans, Walter Bradford Cannon, Gerardo Machado, Christian Morgenstern, Zhang Jinghui, and Jack Butler Yeats. Among people deceased in 1944, Sergei Bulgakov ranks 87. Before him are August Landmesser, Asmahan, Paul Otlet, Günther Korten, Erich Fellgiebel, and Yvette Guilbert. After him are Arsen Kotsoyev, Viktor Ullmann, Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg, Bernardino Machado, Lepke Buchalter, and Chaim Rumkowski.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Sergei Bulgakov ranks 467 out of 3,761. Before him are Pavel Milyukov (1859), Savielly Tartakower (1887), Nikolay Bobrikov (1839), Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922), Sacha Guitry (1885), and Lev Gumilyov (1912). After him are Mikhail Lazarev (1788), Mikhail Alekseyev (1857), Alexander Radishchev (1749), Vasili Kuznetsov (1901), Vasily Surikov (1848), and Yaroslav II of Vladimir (1191).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Russia

Among philosophers born in Russia, Sergei Bulgakov ranks 11. Before him are Vladimir Solovyov (1853), Alexandre Kojève (1902), Johann Georg Hamann (1730), Alexandre Koyré (1892), Ivan Ilyin (1883), and Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700). After him are P. D. Ouspensky (1878), Yuri Lotman (1922), Pyotr Lavrov (1823), Aleksey Khomyakov (1804), Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov (1829), and Nikolai Amosov (1913).

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