Alexander Piatigorsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Alexander Piatigorsky

Russian philosopher

Date of Birth: 30-Jan-1929

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Date of Death: 25-Oct-2009

Profession: philosopher, linguist

Nationality: United Kingdom, Russia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Alexander Piatigorsky

  • Alexander Moiseyevich Piatigorsky (Russian: ??????´??? ?????´???? ??????´?????; 30 January 1929, Moscow – 25 October 2009, London) was a Soviet dissident, Russian philosopher, scholar of South Asian 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." On Russian television stations he was mourned as "the greatest Russian philosopher."

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