Nikolay Lossky

Nikolai Onufrijewitsch Losski (Russian Николай Онуфриевич Лосский; born 24 Novemberjul / December 6 1870greg Krāslava, Vitebsk province, .. † January 24, 1965 in Sainte -Geneviève -des- Bois near Paris ) was a Russian philosopher, theologian and logician. He was representative of an intuitionist epistemology and heavily influenced by the Russian Orthodox Church.

Biography

Losski was from 1901 to 1905 in the German Empire and philosophical studies led by Wilhelm diaper band in Strasbourg, Wilhelm Wundt in Leipzig and Georg Elias Müller at Göttingen. He received in 1907 a doctorate in philosophy. After his return to the Russian Empire, he became a private lecturer and soon afterwards assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Saint Petersburg. In 1916 he became full-fledged professor.

He was invited by Tomáš Masaryk to the Russian University in Prague, where he was part of a group of expatriate Russian philosopher, which included among others Berdjaew Nikolai, Sergei Nikolaevich Bulgakov and Peter Berngardowitsch Struwe. From 1942 to 1945 Losski taught at the University of Bratislava.

Losski fled to Paris in 1945 and has lectured at the Institut de Théologie Orthodox Saint- Serge. In 1947 he took a teaching position for Russian Orthodox theology in the Theological Seminary St. Vladimir in New York. In 1961, he returned after the death of his son Vladimir Lossky back to France. In 1965, he died there after a long illness.

Works

• The foundation of intuitionalism; ( German ) 1908
• Handbook of logic; ( German translation by W. Sesemann ) B.G. Teubner Verlag Berlin Leipzig 1927
• История русской философии; 1951 ( History of Russian Philosophy, online)