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Nikolai Berdyaev
Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev was a Russian philosopher, theologian, and Christian existentialist who emphasized the existential spiritual significance of human freedom and the human person.
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culture · Russian existentialist philosopher and theologian (1874–1948) · philosopher · opinion journalist · university teacher · theologian · also Nikolai Berdyaev, Nikolay Aleksandrovich Berdyayev, Nikolaj Berdyayev, Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev, Berdyaev
Born 6 March 1874 · Died 24 March 1948 · Q184656
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1948· 1 entry
Died 1948-03-24.
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1922· 3 entries
On the so-called "Philosophers' ships", Berdyaev and other émigrés went to Berlin, where he founded an academy of philosophy and religion, but economic and political conditions in the Weimar Republic caused him and his w
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For a midnight interrogation with Dzerjinsky; Kamenev was also there
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Berdyaev wrote numerous articles and several books, of which, according to him, he later truly appreciated only two — "The Meaning of Creativity" and "The Meaning of History
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1920· 1 entry
Berdiaev became professor of philosophy at the University of Moscow
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1919· 1 entry
With the foundation of his own private academy, the "Free Academy of Spiritual Culture"
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1901· 1 entry
Berdyaev opened his literary career so to speak by work on Subjectivism and Individualism in Social Philosophy
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1897· 1 entry
To three years of internal exile to Vologda in northern Russia
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1874· 1 entry
Born 1874-03-06.
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