Alexander Piatigorsky
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Alexander Moiseyevich Piatigorsky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Моисе́евич Пятиго́рский; 30 January 1929 – 25 October 2009) was a Soviet dissident,[1] Russian philosopher, scholar of Indian philosophy and culture, historian, philologist, semiotician, writer. Well-versed in the study of language, he knew Sanskrit, Tamil, Pali, Tibetan, German, Russian, French, Italian and English. In an obituary appearing in the English-language newspaper The Guardian, he was cited as "a man who was widely considered to be one of the more significant thinkers of the age and Russia's greatest philosopher."[2] On Russian television stations he was mourned as "the greatest Russian philosopher."[3]
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Alexander Moiseyevich Piatigorsky | |
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Александр Моисеевич Пятигорский | |
Born | (1929-01-30)30 January 1929 |
Died | 25 October 2009(2009-10-25) (aged 80) London, England |
Era | Contemporary |
School | Analytic |
Main interests | South Asian philosophy and culture, semiotics |