Helsinki: Elina Kahla’s documentary novel delves into the life and thought of the polymath Pavel Florensky
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Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky was a Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, electrical engineer, inventor, polymath, neomartyr and folk saint. During the later twentieth century, statements had appeared noting a recognition by the Russian Orthodox Church of him as a saint, though it was later firmly noted that no such decision had been made.
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science · Russian priest and polymath (1882–1937) · mathematician · inventor · physicist · philosopher · university teacher · engineer · writer · poet · Eastern Orthodox priest · theologian · also Pavel Florensky, Pavel Aleksandrovich Florensky, Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky, Florensky
Born 9 January 1882 · Died 8 December 1937 · Q336769
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Helsinki: Elina Kahla’s documentary novel delves into the life and thought of the polymath Pavel Florensky
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A mass burial ditch was excavated in the Sandarmokh forest, which may well contain his remains
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Among the list of New Martyrs and Confessors
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(of the 1933 charges) and 1959 (of the 1937 charges
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The Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra was opened again
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Died 1937-12-08.
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Was transferred to Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) where, on 25 November, he was sentenced by an extrajudicial NKVD troika to death
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Florensky was exiled to Nizhny Novgorod
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Published a large monograph on dielectrics
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But most of it was finished at the time of his graduation from the academy in 1908
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Wrote his dissertation, About Spiritual Truth
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Studied at Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Moscow Imperial University (1904).
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Graduated from the Imperial Moscow University and declined a teaching position at the university: instead, he proceeded to study theology at the Ecclesiastical Academy in Sergiyev Posad
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Florensky underwent a religious crisis, connected to a visit to Leo Tolstoy caused by an awareness of the limits and relativity of the scientific positivism and rationality which had been an integral part of his initial
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Born 1882-01-09.
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