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Lev Shestov
Russian existentialist philosopher (1866 – 1938)
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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 24 January 1866, 1866
- Died
- 19 November 1938
- Place of birth
- Kyiv
- Place of death
- Paris
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Lev
- Family name
- Shestov, Shvartsman
- Child
- Nathalie Baranoff
- Sibling
- Fanny Lowtzky
- Field of work
- philosophy, existentialism
- Occupation
- philosopher, university teacher, writer, literary historian
- academic degree
- university candidate
- birth name
- Иегуда Лейб Шварцман, Ієгуда Лейб Шварцман
- described by source
- Nordisk familjebok, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)
- employer
- University of Paris
- influenced by
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Søren Kierkegaard, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Lermontov, Anton Chekhov, William Shakespeare, Benedictus de Spinoza, Heinrich Heine, Martin Luther, Blaise Pascal, Plotinus
- languages spoken, written or signed
- Russian
- name in native language
- Лев Исаакович Шестов
- notable work
- Athens and Jerusalem
- place of burial
- Cimetière de l'avenue Pierre-Grenier
- topic's main category
- Category:Lev Shestov
- writing language
- Russian
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