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Alexander Men

1935 - 1990

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Alexander Vladimirovich Men (Russian: Алекса́ндр Влади́мирович Мень, romanized: Aleksandr Vladimirovich Men'; 22 January 1935 – 9 September 1990) was a Soviet Russian Orthodox priest, dissident, theologian, biblical scholar and writer on theology, the history of religion, the fundamentals of Christian doctrine, and Orthodox worship. Men wrote dozens of books (including his magnum opus, History of Religion: In Search of the Way, the Truth and the Life (1970 onwards), the seventh volume of which (entitled Son of Man, 1969) served as the introduction to Christianity for thousands of citizens of the Soviet Union); baptized hundreds; founded an Orthodox open university in 1990; and opened one of the first Sunday schools in the USSR as well as a charity group at the Russian Children's Hospital. Alexander Men was murdered early on a Sunday morning, on 9 September 1990, by an axe-wielding assailant outside his home in Semkhoz in the Sergiyevo-Posadsky District of the Moscow Oblast of Russia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Men has received more than 159,972 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Men is the 1,035th most popular philosopher (down from 961st in 2019), the 1,444th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,295th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Russian Philosopher.

Memorability Metrics

  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Alexander Men ranks 1,035 out of 1,267. Before him are August Böckh, Idomeneus of Lampsacus, Jaime Balmes, Sopater of Apamea, Paul Deussen, and Cercidas. After him are Ecphantus the Pythagorean, Mary Daly, Wilhelm Gesenius, Carl Dahlhaus, Theodor Benfey, and Thrasyllus of Mendes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Alexander Men ranks 258. Before him are Don Bragg, Fujio Akatsuka, Károly Palotai, Dinkha IV, Paul Chambers, and Bruno Rodzik. After him are Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov, Sarah Kirsch, Kenneth Mars, Mario Bellini, Syd Field, and Semka Sokolović-Bertok. Among people deceased in 1990, Alexander Men ranks 164. Before him are Joel McCrea, Luigi Beccali, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Boris Paichadze, Germán Suárez Flamerich, and Luis Trenker. After him are Ahti Karjalainen, Kenjiro Takayanagi, Manly P. Hall, Horst Bienek, Laura Perls, and Aleksandra Chudina.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Men ranks 1,444 out of 3,761. Before him are Johannes Virolainen (1914), Marina Semyonova (1908), Yuri Rytkheu (1930), Anton Delvig (1798), Vladimir Gardin (1877), and Sandra Kalniete (1952). After him are Oskari Friman (1893), Alevtina Kolchina (1930), Gavriil Kachalin (1911), Countess Friederike von Schlieben (1757), Julia Volkova (1985), and Fyodor Dan (1871).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Russia

Among philosophers born in Russia, Alexander Men ranks 24. Before him are Volin (1882), Konstantin Leontiev (1831), Aleksey Khomyakov (1804), Vasily Rozanov (1856), Evald Ilyenkov (1924), and Ivan Aksakov (1823). After him are Ivan Kireyevsky (1806), Aleksei Losev (1893), Semyon Frank (1877), Geydar Dzhemal (1947), Boris Parygin (1930), and Albert Razin (1940).

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