Nikolai Lossky

Nikolay Lossky
From the bookcover Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical
Born	Nikolay Onufriyevich Lossky 6 December 1870 Krāslava, Russian Empire (now Latvia)
Died	24 January 1965 Paris, France
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Russian philosophy
School	Intuitionism
Main interests	Personalism, Ethics, Neoplatonism
Notable ideas	Intuitivist-Personalism, Gnosiology
Influences Origen, Plotinus, Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, Hegel, Wilhelm Windelband, Wilhelm Wundt, Pavel Florensky
Influenced Vladimir Lossky, Nicolai Hartmann

Nikolay Onufriyevich Lossky (/ˈlɒski/; Russian: Никола́й Ону́фриевич Ло́сский; 6 December [O.S. 24 November] 1870 – 24 January 1965) was a Russian philosopher, representative of Russian idealism, intuitionist epistemology, personalism, libertarianism, ethics and axiology (value theory). He gave his philosophical system the name intuitive-personalism. Born in Latvia, he spent his working life in St. Petersburg, New York, and Paris. He was the father of the influential Christian theologian Vladimir Lossky.

Lossky was born in Krāslava, Latvia (then in the Russian Empire). His father, Onufry Lossky, had Belarusian roots (his grandfather was a Greek-Catholic Uniate priest) and was an Orthodox Christian; his mother Adelajda Przylenicka was Polish and Roman Catholic. He was expelled from school for propagating atheism.

Lossky undertook post-graduate studies in Germany under Wilhelm Windelband, Wilhelm Wundt and G. E. Müller, receiving a Master's degree in 1903 and a Doctorate in 1907.