1866 - 1938
Lev Isaakovich Shestov (Russian: Лев Исаакович Шестов; 31 January [O.S. 13 February] 1866 – 19 November 1938; born Yeguda Leib Shvartsman) was a Jewish-Russian existentialist and religious philosopher. He is best known for his critiques of both philosophic rationalism and positivism. His work advocated a movement beyond reason and metaphysics, arguing that these are incapable of conclusively establishing truth about ultimate problems, including the nature of God or existence. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lev Shestov has received more than 347,046 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Lev Shestov is the 341st most popular philosopher (up from 351st in 2019), the 101st most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 98th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Ukrainian Philosopher.
Lev Shestov was a Russian philosopher who was most famous for his book "Tolstoy and Dostoevsky: A Study in Dostoevsky's Attitude Toward Reality."
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Among philosophers, Lev Shestov ranks 341 out of 1,081. Before him are Antoine Arnauld, Juan Luis Vives, Jacques Rancière, Edgar Morin, Martianus Capella, and Strato of Lampsacus. After him are Yi I, E. H. Carr, Wang Yangming, Hermann Cohen, Pietro Pomponazzi, and Richard Rorty.
1612 - 1694
HPI: 62.88
Rank: 335
1492 - 1540
HPI: 62.86
Rank: 336
1940 - Present
HPI: 62.83
Rank: 337
1921 - Present
HPI: 62.80
Rank: 338
360 - 428
HPI: 62.67
Rank: 339
335 BC - 269 BC
HPI: 62.63
Rank: 340
1866 - 1938
HPI: 62.51
Rank: 341
1536 - 1584
HPI: 62.50
Rank: 342
1892 - 1982
HPI: 62.49
Rank: 343
1472 - 1529
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 344
1842 - 1918
HPI: 62.42
Rank: 345
1462 - 1525
HPI: 62.40
Rank: 346
1931 - 2007
HPI: 62.40
Rank: 347
Among people born in 1866, Lev Shestov ranks 24. Before him are Charles Nicolle, Ramsay MacDonald, Emilio De Bono, Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria, George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, and Antoine Meillet. After him are Butch Cassidy, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Léon Bakst, Nathan Söderblom, and Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia. Among people deceased in 1938, Lev Shestov ranks 30. Before him are Osip Mandelstam, Vasily Blyukher, Christian Lous Lange, Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Bruno Taut, and Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein. After him are Nikolai Kondratiev, Feodor Chaliapin, Otto Bauer, Nikolai Trubetzkoy, Hans Christian Gram, and Ernst vom Rath.
1866 - 1936
HPI: 63.71
Rank: 18
1866 - 1937
HPI: 63.24
Rank: 19
1866 - 1944
HPI: 63.24
Rank: 20
1866 - 1939
HPI: 62.80
Rank: 21
1866 - 1923
HPI: 62.65
Rank: 22
1866 - 1936
HPI: 62.62
Rank: 23
1866 - 1938
HPI: 62.51
Rank: 24
1866 - 1908
HPI: 61.72
Rank: 25
1866 - 1915
HPI: 61.66
Rank: 26
1866 - 1934
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 27
1866 - 1924
HPI: 61.44
Rank: 28
1866 - 1931
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 29
1866 - 1933
HPI: 61.12
Rank: 30
1891 - 1938
HPI: 64.03
Rank: 24
1889 - 1938
HPI: 63.96
Rank: 25
1869 - 1938
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 26
1862 - 1938
HPI: 63.40
Rank: 27
1880 - 1938
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 28
1853 - 1938
HPI: 63.14
Rank: 29
1866 - 1938
HPI: 62.51
Rank: 30
1892 - 1938
HPI: 62.44
Rank: 31
1873 - 1938
HPI: 62.43
Rank: 32
1881 - 1938
HPI: 61.75
Rank: 33
1890 - 1938
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 34
1853 - 1938
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 35
1909 - 1938
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 36
Among people born in Ukraine, Lev Shestov ranks 101 out of 1,083. Before him are Nestor the Chronicler (1056), Reinhold Glière (1874), Lee Strasberg (1901), Ivan Paskevich (1782), Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki (1640), and Marie Bashkirtseff (1858). After him are Nikolai Tikhonov (1905), Alexander Archipenko (1887), Emil Gilels (1916), Sergei Bondarchuk (1920), Milla Jovovich (1975), and Stepan Makarov (1848).
1056 - 1106
HPI: 62.81
Rank: 95
1874 - 1956
HPI: 62.80
Rank: 96
1901 - 1982
HPI: 62.77
Rank: 97
1782 - 1856
HPI: 62.77
Rank: 98
1640 - 1673
HPI: 62.73
Rank: 99
1858 - 1884
HPI: 62.66
Rank: 100
1866 - 1938
HPI: 62.51
Rank: 101
1905 - 1997
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 102
1887 - 1964
HPI: 62.11
Rank: 103
1916 - 1985
HPI: 61.96
Rank: 104
1920 - 1994
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 105
1975 - Present
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 106
1848 - 1904
HPI: 61.83
Rank: 107
Among philosophers born in Ukraine, Lev Shestov ranks 3. Before him are Nikolai Berdyaev (1874) and Anacharsis (-700). After him are P. D. Ouspensky (1878), Bion of Borysthenes (-325), Zalmoxis (-713), Alexius Meinong (1853), Theophan Prokopovich (1681), Mykhailo Drahomanov (1841), Yuriy Drohobych (1450), Hugo Kołłątaj (1750), and Georges Florovsky (1893).
1874 - 1948
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 1
700 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 2
1866 - 1938
HPI: 62.51
Rank: 3
1878 - 1947
HPI: 59.96
Rank: 4
325 BC - 246 BC
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 5
713 BC - Present
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 6
1853 - 1920
HPI: 55.27
Rank: 7
1681 - 1736
HPI: 55.07
Rank: 8
1841 - 1895
HPI: 53.48
Rank: 9
1450 - 1494
HPI: 53.26
Rank: 10
1750 - 1812
HPI: 51.72
Rank: 11
1893 - 1979
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 12