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PHILOSOPHER

Isaiah Berlin

1909 - 1997

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Sir Isaiah Berlin (24 May/6 June 1909 – 5 November 1997) was a Latvian-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 1,397,669 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Isaiah Berlin is the 219th most popular philosopher (up from 244th 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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  • 56

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  • 8.66

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  • 3.55

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Isaiah Berlin ranks 219 out of 1,081. Before him are Joseph de Maistre, Chilon of Sparta, Bias of Priene, Slavoj Žižek, Benedetto Croce, and Miguel de Unamuno. After him are Baltasar Gracián, Paul Feyerabend, Giorgio Agamben, Milarepa, Bernard Bolzano, and Bayazid Bastami.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Isaiah Berlin ranks 14. Before him are Mohammed Daoud Khan, Francis Bacon, Victor Borge, Nicholas Winton, U Thant, and Rita Levi-Montalcini. After him are Kwame Nkrumah, Mohammed V of Morocco, Li Xiannian, Ernst Gombrich, Errol Flynn, and Talal of Jordan. Among people deceased in 1997, Isaiah Berlin ranks 18. Before him are Anton LaVey, Paulo Freire, Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, Bohumil Hrabal, The Notorious B.I.G., and Hans Eysenck. After him are William S. Burroughs, Sviatoslav Richter, Melvin Calvin, Robert Mitchum, Allen Ginsberg, and Roy Lichtenstein.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Isaiah Berlin ranks 5 out of 284. Before him are Sergei Eisenstein (1898), Wilhelm Ostwald (1853), Mark Rothko (1903), and Mikhail Tal (1936). After him are Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (1761), Nicolai Hartmann (1882), Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948), Mariss Jansons (1943), Kārlis Ulmanis (1877), Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga (1937), and Aron Nimzowitsch (1886).

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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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