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PHILOSOPHER

Pavel Florensky

1882 - 1937

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Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky (also P. A. Florenskiĭ, Florenskii, Florenskij; Russian: Па́вел Алекса́ндрович Флоре́нский; Armenian: Պավել Ֆլորենսկի, romanized: Pavel Florenski; 21 January [O.S. 9 January] 1882 – December 8, 1937) was a Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, electrical engineer, inventor, polymath, neomartyr and folk saint. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pavel Florensky has received more than 267,021 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Pavel Florensky is the 435th most popular philosopher (down from 434th in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Azerbaijan and the most popular Azerbaijani Philosopher.

Pavel Florensky was a Russian Orthodox priest, philosopher, mathematician, and physicist. He is most famous for his work in the fields of mathematics and physics, in which he developed a new theory of relativity.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Pavel Florensky ranks 435 out of 1,081Before him are Damascius, Eudemus of Rhodes, Hunayn ibn Ishaq, Adolf von Harnack, Hans Reichenbach, and Francisco Ferrer. After him are Arnobius, Michel Serres, P. D. Ouspensky, Kapila, Franz Rosenzweig, and Lucilio Vanini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Pavel Florensky ranks 60Before him are Johnny Torrio, Wacław Sierpiński, John Bauer, Petre Dumitrescu, Jean Giraudoux, and Yusef of Morocco. After him are Yakub Kolas, Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia, Harold Lowe, Husband E. Kimmel, Fan Noli, and Dušan Simović. Among people deceased in 1937, Pavel Florensky ranks 37Before him are Emilio Mola, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Gustaf Dalén, Albert Roussel, Wallace Carothers, and Edith Wharton. After him are Louis Vierne, Georgy Pyatakov, Keke Geladze, Bessie Smith, Ray Ewry, and Chūya Nakahara.

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In Azerbaijan

Among people born in Azerbaijan, Pavel Florensky ranks 21 out of 189Before him are Ayaz Mutallibov (1938), Uzeyir Hajibeyov (1885), Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh (1884), Mirza Fatali Akhundov (1812), Garegin Nzhdeh (1886), and Artur Rasizade (1935). After him are Khaqani (1126), Shirali Muslimov (1805), Fikret Amirov (1922), Mehriban Aliyeva (1964), Muslim Magomayev (1942), and Tadj ol-Molouk (1896).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Azerbaijan

Among philosophers born in Azerbaijan, Pavel Florensky ranks 1After him are Max Black (1909).