Pavel Florensky
Pavel Florensky | |
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Father Pavel Florensky | |
| Born | Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky 21 January 1882 Yevlakh, Elisabethpol Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 8 December 1937 (aged 55) Leningrad Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | Imperial Moscow University |
| Academic advisors | Nikolai Bugaev |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Russian philosophy |
| School | Christian philosophy Sophiology |
| Main interests | Philosophy of religion |
Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky (also P. A. Florenskiĭ, Florenskii, Florenskij; Russian: Па́вел Алекса́ндрович Флоре́нский; Armenian: Պավել Ֆլորենսկի, romanized: Pavel Florenski; 21 January [O.S. 9 January] 1882 – December 8, 1937) was a Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, electrical engineer, inventor, polymath, neomartyr and folk saint. During the later twentieth century, statements had appeared noting a recognition by the Russian Orthodox Church of him as a saint, though it was later firmly noted that no such decision had been made.