PHILOSOPHER

Isaiah Berlin

1909 - 1997

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Sir Isaiah Berlin (24 May/6 June 1909 – 5 November 1997) was a Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher, and historian of ideas. Although he became increasingly averse to writing for publication, his improvised lectures and talks were sometimes recorded and transcribed, and many of his spoken words were converted into published essays and books, both by himself and by others, especially by his principal editor from 1974, Henry Hardy. Born in Riga (now the capital of Latvia, then a part of the Russian Empire) in 1909, he moved to Petrograd, Russia, at the age of six, where he witnessed the revolutions of 1917. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Isaiah Berlin has received more than 1,483,873 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Isaiah Berlin is the 257th most popular philosopher (down from 219th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Latvia and the most popular Latvian Philosopher.

Isaiah Berlin is most famous for his essay "Two Concepts of Liberty."

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Isaiah Berlin ranks 257 out of 1,267. Before him are Aśvaghoṣa, Padmasambhava, Vladimir Solovyov, Georges Sorel, Hugh of Saint Victor, and Anacharsis. After him are Shen Kuo, William Godwin, Speusippus, Ibn al-Nafis, Nicole Oresme, and Hans Jonas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Isaiah Berlin ranks 20. Before him are Virginia Apgar, Andrei Gromyko, Talal of Jordan, Stanislaw Ulam, Elia Kazan, and Li Xiannian. After him are Ernst Gombrich, Mohammed Daoud Khan, Carmen Miranda, Magda Schneider, Souphanouvong, and Marinus van der Lubbe. Among people deceased in 1997, Isaiah Berlin ranks 23. Before him are Bohumil Hrabal, Chaim Herzog, Sviatoslav Richter, Hans Eysenck, William S. Burroughs, and Fred Zinnemann. After him are Allen Ginsberg, Bảo Đại, Helenio Herrera, Dodi Fayed, Burgess Meredith, and Aldo Rossi.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Isaiah Berlin ranks 5 out of 323. Before him are Sergei Eisenstein (1898), Wilhelm Ostwald (1853), Mark Rothko (1903), and Mikhail Tal (1936). After him are Mariss Jansons (1943), Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948), Nicolai Hartmann (1882), Kārlis Ulmanis (1877), Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga (1937), Ernst Gideon von Laudon (1717), and Jacob Kettler (1610).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Latvia

Among philosophers born in Latvia, Isaiah Berlin ranks 1. After him are Nicolai Hartmann (1882), Abraham Isaac Kook (1865), Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903), and Nikolay Lossky (1870).

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