The Most Famous
PHILOSOPHERS from Lithuania
This page contains a list of the greatest Lithuanian Philosophers. The pantheon dataset contains 1,267 Philosophers, 2 of which were born in Lithuania. This makes Lithuania the birth place of the 51st most number of Philosophers behind Cyprus, and Slovenia.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Lithuanian Philosophers of all time. This list of famous Lithuanian Philosophers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Emmanuel Levinas (1906 - 1995)
With an HPI of 68.96, Emmanuel Levinas is the most famous Lithuanian Philosopher. His biography has been translated into 49 different languages on wikipedia.
Emmanuel Levinas (; French: [ɛmanɥɛl levinas]; 12 January 1906 – 25 December 1995) was a French philosopher of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry who is known for his work within Jewish philosophy, existentialism, and phenomenology, focusing on the relationship of ethics to metaphysics and ontology.
2. Abram Deborin (1881 - 1963)
With an HPI of 47.59, Abram Deborin is the 2nd most famous Lithuanian Philosopher. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages.
Abram Moiseyevich Deborin (Ioffe) (Russian: Абра́м Моисе́евич Дебо́рин (Ио́ффе); 16 June [O.S. 4 June] 1881, Upyna, Kovno Governorate – 8 March 1963, Moscow) was a Soviet Marxist philosopher and academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1929). Deborin oscillated between The Bolshevik and Menshevik factions of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, before settling with the Bolsheviks and enjoying a long career as a philosopher in the Soviet Union. Although this career suffered under Stalin, he lived to see his works republished when the Soviet Union was led by Nikita Khrushchev.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Lithuanian philosophers born between 1881 and 1906. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Lithuanian philosophers include Emmanuel Levinas, and Abram Deborin.
