Raïssa Maritain, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Raïssa Maritain

Russian poet and philosopher

Date of Birth: 12-Sep-1883

Place of Birth: Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 04-Nov-1960

Profession: writer, poet, philosopher

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Raïssa Maritain (née Oumansoff) (12 September 1883 in Rostov-on-Don – 4 November 1960 in Paris) was a Russian-born French poet and philosopher. She immigrated to France and studied at the Sorbonne, where she met the young Jacques Maritain, also a philosopher, whom she married in 1904.
She was raised Jewish but, following a period in which she considered herself an atheist, converted to Roman Catholicism with her husband in 1906.