Who influenced Alexander Herzen?

Who was Alexander Herzen?

Alexander Herzen was a Russian writer and thinker regarded as a precursor of Russian socialism and of agrarian populism. Much of his writing was done in exile in London, from where he tried to shape events in Russia and helped create the climate for the emancipation of the serfs in 1861.

He wrote the social novel Who Is to Blame? (1845–46), and his memoir My Past and Thoughts is counted among the finest autobiographies in Russian literature.

Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.

Who influenced Alexander Herzen?

2 direct influences on this map, earliest first.

• Georg W. F. Hegel 1770–1831
• Pyotr Chaadayev 1794–1856

Who did Alexander Herzen influence?

1 thinker on this map draws directly on Alexander Herzen.

• Nikolay Chernyshevsky 1828–1889

The line of teachers behind Alexander Herzen

The longest documented line of influence ending at Alexander Herzen runs 23 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.

1. Thales of Miletus
2. Anaximenes of Miletus
3. Anaxagoras
4. Socrates
5. Antisthenes
6. Diogenes of Sinope
7. Crates of Thebes
8. Zeno of Citium
9. Seneca
10. Tertullian
11. Augustine of Hippo
12. Anselm of Canterbury
13. Peter Lombard
14. Thomas Aquinas
15. René Descartes
16. Thomas Hobbes
17. Baruch Spinoza
18. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
19. Christian Wolff
20. Immanuel Kant
21. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
22. F. W. J. Schelling
23. Georg W. F. Hegel
24. Alexander Herzen

Two steps away from Alexander Herzen

Indirect influences

• Through Georg W. F. Hegel: Heraclitus, Baruch Spinoza, Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottfried Herder, F. W. J. Schelling

The second generation

• Through Nikolay Chernyshevsky: Georgi Plekhanov

Contemporaries of Alexander Herzen

Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Alexander Herzen, with no direct line between them.

• Søren Kierkegaard 1813–1855
• Mikhail Bakunin 1814–1876
• Charles Darwin 1809–1882
• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809–1865
• Rudolf Hermann Lotze 1817–1881
• Harriet Taylor Mill 1807–1858
• Karl Marx 1818–1883
• John Stuart Mill 1806–1873

Alexander Herzen by the numbers

Direct influences

2

Direct followers

1

Thinkers upstream

90

Thinkers downstream

3

Wikipedia languages

56 — #30 of 47 among 19th-century philosophers

Card rarity

Epic

Questions about Alexander Herzen

Who influenced Alexander Herzen?

Georg W. F. Hegel and Pyotr Chaadayev.

Who did Alexander Herzen influence?

Nikolay Chernyshevsky.

When did Alexander Herzen live?

1812–1870. The map files Alexander Herzen under the long 19th century.

How rare is the Alexander Herzen card?

Wikipedia carries an article on Alexander Herzen in 56 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.

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• Friedrich Engels 1820–1895
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