PHILOSOPHER

P. D. Ouspensky

1878 - 1947

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Pyotr Demyanovich Uspensky (Russian: Пётр Демьянович Успенский), known in English as P. D. Ouspensky (5 March 1878 – 2 October 1947), was a Russian philosopher and esotericist known for his expositions of the early work of the Greek-Armenian teacher of esoteric doctrine George Gurdjieff. He met Gurdjieff in Moscow in 1915, and was associated with the ideas and practices originating with Gurdjieff from then on. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of P. D. Ouspensky has received more than 615,545 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. P. D. Ouspensky is the 473rd most popular philosopher (down from 438th in 2019), the 437th most popular biography from Russia (down from 142nd in 2019) and the 10th most popular Russian Philosopher.

P. D. Ouspensky is most famous for his book, "In Search of the Miraculous," in which he shares his personal experiences with the writings of G. I. Gurdjieff and his system of self-development.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, P. D. Ouspensky ranks 473 out of 1,267. Before him are George Pachymeres, Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Jean-Luc Nancy, Hans Reichenbach, Hasdai Crescas, and Ravidas. After him are Ernst Troeltsch, Valentinus, Aristo of Chios, Jyotirao Phule, Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, and Willard Van Orman Quine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, P. D. Ouspensky ranks 38. Before him are Eileen Gray, Yakov Yurovsky, Sadriddin Ayni, Jan Łukasiewicz, Kōki Hirota, and Clemens August Graf von Galen. After him are Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria, Elizabeth Arden, Milan Hodža, Mahmud Barzanji, Abdelaziz of Morocco, and Slavko Kvaternik. Among people deceased in 1947, P. D. Ouspensky ranks 50. Before him are Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Karel Čurda, Pyotr Krasnov, Franz Seldte, Reynaldo Hahn, and Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke. After him are Franz Böhme, Victor Serge, Dorothea Binz, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Gusztáv Jány, and Franz Ritter von Epp.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, P. D. Ouspensky ranks 437 out of 3,761. Before him are Ivan Ilyin (1883), Naum Gabo (1890), Andre Geim (1958), Dmitry Pavlov (1897), Yury Luzhkov (1936), and Princess Louise of Prussia (1808). After him are Lydia Litvyak (1921), Andrei Platonov (1899), Mehmed I Giray (1465), Tsarevna Catherine Ivanovna of Russia (1691), Dmitry Utkin (1970), and Salawat Yulayev (1754).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Russia

Among philosophers born in Russia, P. D. Ouspensky ranks 10. Before him are Georgi Plekhanov (1856), Vladimir Solovyov (1853), Johann Georg Hamann (1730), Alexandre Koyré (1892), Alexandre Kojève (1902), and Ivan Ilyin (1883). After him are Yuri Lotman (1922), Sergei Bulgakov (1871), Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700), Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov (1829), Alexander Zinoviev (1922), and Pyotr Lavrov (1823).

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