20th century · 1877–1950
Who influenced Semyon Frank?
Influences
Philosopher of the unknowable: the absolute as the living whole beyond being.
Semyon Frank was influenced by Vladimir Solovyov. That is 1 line of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Semyon Frank?
Semyon Frank was a Russian philosopher born into a Jewish family who became an Orthodox Christian in 1912. Expelled from Soviet Russia in 1922, he lived in Berlin until 1933, when he lost his post as head of the Russian Scientific Institute, and moved to Britain in 1945.
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Who influenced Semyon Frank?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Vladimir Solovyov 1853–1900
The line of teachers behind Semyon Frank
The longest documented line of influence ending at Semyon Frank runs 25 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
- Thales of Miletus
- Anaximenes of Miletus
- Anaxagoras
- Socrates
- Antisthenes
- Diogenes of Sinope
- Crates of Thebes
- Zeno of Citium
- Seneca
- Tertullian
- Augustine of Hippo
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Peter Lombard
- Thomas Aquinas
- René Descartes
- Thomas Hobbes
- Baruch Spinoza
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Christian Wolff
- Immanuel Kant
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- F. W. J. Schelling
- Pyotr Chaadayev
- Aleksey Khomyakov
- Vladimir Solovyov
- Semyon Frank
Two steps away from Semyon Frank
Indirect influences
Contemporaries of Semyon Frank
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Semyon Frank, with no direct line between them.
- Muhammad Iqbal 1877–1938
- Max Scheler 1874–1928
- Nikolai Berdyaev 1874–1948
- Ernst Cassirer 1874–1945
- G. E. Moore 1873–1958
- Bertrand Russell 1872–1970
- Pavel Florensky 1882–1937
- Karl Jaspers 1883–1969
Semyon Frank by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 0
- Thinkers upstream
- 89
- Thinkers downstream
- 0
- Wikipedia languages
- 15 — #83 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Common
Schools and lineages
Questions about Semyon Frank
- Who influenced Semyon Frank?
- Vladimir Solovyov.
- Who did Semyon Frank influence?
- No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Semyon Frank.
- When did Semyon Frank live?
- 1877–1950. The map files Semyon Frank under the 20th century.
- How rare is the Semyon Frank card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Semyon Frank in 15 languages, which makes it a Common card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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