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Nikolay Lossky

1870 - 1965

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Nikolay Onufriyevich Lossky (; 6 December [O.S. 24 November] 1870 – 24 January 1965), also known as N. O. Lossky, was a Russian philosopher, representative of Russian idealism, intuitionist epistemology, personalism, libertarianism, ethics and axiology (value theory). He gave his philosophical system the name intuitive-personalism. Born in Latvia, he spent his working life in St. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolay Lossky has received more than 60,786 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Nikolay Lossky is the 899th most popular philosopher (up from 942nd in 2019), the 76th most popular biography from Latvia (up from 96th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Latvian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Nikolay Lossky ranks 899 out of 1,267. Before him are Beatus Rhenanus, Feng Youlan, Cerinthus, Bernard Williams, Hugo Kołłątaj, and Dominicus Gundissalinus. After him are Paul de Man, William of Conches, Ramananda, Michael Löwy, Gregory of Tatev, and Arthur Oncken Lovejoy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Nikolay Lossky ranks 93. Before him are Amadeo Giannini, Charles Tournemire, Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria, Francisco S. Carvajal, Édouard Le Roy, and Albert Sechehaye. After him are Annie Londonderry, William J. Seymour, Louis Bachelier, Magnus Enckell, Oskar Vogt, and Evgeny Paton. Among people deceased in 1965, Nikolay Lossky ranks 97. Before him are Mostafa El-Nahas, Árpád Szakasits, Linda Darnell, D. N. Aidit, Philip Showalter Hench, and Viola Desmond. After him are Maria Dąbrowska, Daniel-Rops, Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Dorothy Dandridge, Píndaro de Carvalho Rodrigues, and Jānis Balodis.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Nikolay Lossky ranks 76 out of 323. Before him are Anatole Abragam (1914), Kristjan Jaak Peterson (1801), Tatjana Ždanoka (1950), Karl Eichwald (1795), Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven (1899), and Cēzars Ozers (1937). After him are Ivars Godmanis (1951), Anšlavs Eglītis (1906), Johann Anton Güldenstädt (1745), Valdis Dombrovskis (1971), Annie Londonderry (1870), and Arkady Raikin (1911).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Latvia

Among philosophers born in Latvia, Nikolay Lossky ranks 5. Before him are Isaiah Berlin (1909), Nicolai Hartmann (1882), Abraham Isaac Kook (1865), and Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903).

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