PHILOSOPHER

Nikolai Berdyaev

1874 - 1948

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Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev (; Russian: Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Бердя́ев; 18 March [O.S. 6 March] 1874 – 24 March 1948) was a Russian philosopher, theologian, and Christian existentialist who emphasized the existential spiritual significance of human freedom and the human person. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolai Berdyaev has received more than 511,585 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Nikolai Berdyaev is the 223rd most popular philosopher (up from 238th in 2019), the 64th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 54th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Philosopher.

Nikolai Berdyaev was a Russian philosopher and religious thinker. He is most famous for his book "The Meaning of the Creative Act" which discusses the importance of creativity in human life.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Nikolai Berdyaev ranks 223 out of 1,267. Before him are Imre Lakatos, George Herbert Mead, Julius Evola, Josef Breuer, Cratylus, and Bayazid Bastami. After him are Marsilius of Padua, Paul Feyerabend, Vyasa, Benjamin Constant, Al-Jahiz, and Arcesilaus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Nikolai Berdyaev ranks 19. Before him are Gertrude Stein, Alexander Kolchak, António Egas Moniz, Carl Bosch, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and Sunjong of Korea. After him are G. K. Chesterton, Talaat Pasha, W. Somerset Maugham, August Krogh, Karl Kraus, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Among people deceased in 1948, Nikolai Berdyaev ranks 14. Before him are Hideki Tojo, Walther von Brauchitsch, Edgar de Wahl, Antonin Artaud, Folke Bernadotte, and Andrei Zhdanov. After him are Karl Brandt, Johannes Blaskowitz, Witold Pilecki, Babe Ruth, Jan Masaryk, and Theodor Morell.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Nikolai Berdyaev ranks 64 out of 1,365. Before him are Petro Poroshenko (1965), Vasily Grossman (1905), Lesya Ukrainka (1871), Fanny Kaplan (1890), Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880), and Lazar Kaganovich (1893). After him are Rodion Malinovsky (1898), Ilya Ehrenburg (1891), Stanislaw Ulam (1909), Daniel of Galicia (1201), Sviatoslav Richter (1915), and David Oistrakh (1908).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Ukraine

Among philosophers born in Ukraine, Nikolai Berdyaev ranks 1. After him are Anacharsis (-700), Lev Shestov (1866), Bion of Borysthenes (-325), Zalmoxis (-713), Theophan Prokopovich (1681), Alexius Meinong (1853), Mykhailo Drahomanov (1841), Yuriy Drohobych (1450), Ber Borochov (1881), Hugo Kołłątaj (1750), and Georges Florovsky (1893).

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