Gustav Shpet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gustav Shpet

Russian philosopher

Date of Birth: 26-Mar-1879

Place of Birth: Kiev, Ukraine

Date of Death: 16-Nov-1937

Profession: writer, psychologist, translator, philosopher

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Gustav Gustavovich Shpet (Russian: ?????´? ?????´????? ????; April 7 [O.S.
March 26] 1879, Kyiv, Russian Empire – November 16, 1937, Tomsk, Russian SFSR) was a Ukrainian and Russian philosopher, psychologist, art theoretician, and interpreter (he knew 17 languages).
He was a follower of Edmund Husserl's phenomenology and introduced Husserlian phenomenology to Russia, modifying the phenomenology which he found in Husserl. Shpet enrolled in University of Kiev in 1898, but was expelled for joining a Marxist circle.
He never adopted a Marxist philosophical viewpoint, even though he sympathised with the socio-economic aims of Marxism.As a thinker, he was thoroughly grounded in Russian religious thought of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
His philosophy combined Husserl's analysis of the structure of consciousness with Platonism of Orthodoxy, the doctrine of incarnation, and veneration of matter. In 1921 he founded the Institute of Scientific Philosophy in Moscow. His espousal of Husserl's phenomenology influenced the literary scholars Michail Petrovskij, Grigorij Vinokur, and Michail Stoljarov.