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PHILOSOPHER

P. D. Ouspensky

1878 - 1947

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Pyotr Demianovich Ouspenskii (known in English as Peter D. Ouspensky; Russian: Пётр Демья́нович Успе́нский, tr. Pyotr Demyánovich Uspénskiy; 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 570,443 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). P. D. Ouspensky is the 438th most popular philosopher (down from 430th in 2019), the 143rd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 129th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Ukrainian 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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  • 30

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  • 6.62

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  • 2.59

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, P. D. Ouspensky ranks 438 out of 1,081. Before him are Adolf von Harnack, Hans Reichenbach, Francisco Ferrer, Pavel Florensky, Arnobius, and Michel Serres. After him are Kapila, Franz Rosenzweig, Lucilio Vanini, Yuri Lotman, Brunetto Latini, and Ravidas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, P. D. Ouspensky ranks 30. Before him are Yakov Yurovsky, Eileen Gray, Alexander von Falkenhausen, Elizabeth Arden, Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria, and Arthur Scherbius. After him are Léon Werth, Marcel Grossmann, Jan Łukasiewicz, George Whipple, Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, and Georg Kaiser. Among people deceased in 1947, P. D. Ouspensky ranks 46. Before him are Qazi Muhammad, Manolete, Hjalmar Siilasvuo, Pyotr Krasnov, Franz Böhme, and Karel Čurda. After him are Huda Sha'arawi, Albert Marquet, Reynaldo Hahn, Dorothea Binz, Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke, and Franz Ritter von Epp.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, P. D. Ouspensky ranks 143 out of 1,083. Before him are Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski (1895), Kunigunda of Halych (1245), Sviatoslav II of Kiev (1027), Leo Kanner (1894), Stanisław Żółkiewski (1547), and Alfred Redl (1864). After him are Serge Lifar (1904), Ida Rubinstein (1883), Vladimir Korolenko (1853), Boris Savinkov (1879), Jeremi Wiśniowiecki (1612), and Valentin Glushko (1908).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Ukraine

Among philosophers born in Ukraine, P. D. Ouspensky ranks 4. Before him are Nikolai Berdyaev (1874), Anacharsis (-700), and Lev Shestov (1866). After him are 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).

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