biography
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Berdyayev, Nikolai Alexandrovich
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pronunciation:
[berdyayef]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1874–1948)
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| biography:
| Religious philosopher, born in Kiev, Ukraine. An aristocrat by birth, he developed strong revolutionary sympathies as a student, and supported the 1917 Revolution. He secured a professorship at Moscow, but his unorthodox spiritual and libertarian ideals led to his dismissal (1922). He moved to Berlin to found an Academy of the Philosophy of Religion, which he later transferred to Clamart, near Paris. He described himself as a ‘believing freethinker’, and his fierce commitment to freedom and individualism brought him into conflict with both ecclesiastical and political powers. |
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