Alexander Piatigorsky
Russian philosopher
Died when: 80 years 268 days (968 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Alexander Moiseyevich Piatigorsky (Russian: ??????´??? ?????´???? ??????´?????; 30 January 1929 – 25 October 2009) was a Soviet dissident, Russian philosopher, scholar of Indian philosophy and culture, historian, philologist, semiotician, writer.
Well-versed in the study of language, he knew Sanskrit, Tamil, Pali, Tibetan, German, Russian, French, Italian and English.In an obituary appearing in the English-language newspaper The Guardian, he was cited as "a man who was widely considered to be one of the more significant thinkers of the age and Russia's greatest philosopher." On Russian television stations he was mourned as "the greatest Russian philosopher."
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