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Lev Gumilev | |
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Лев Гумилёв | |
Born | 1 October [O.S. 18 September] 1912 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
Died | 15 June 1992 Saint Petersburg, Russia | (aged 79)
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Era | 20th-century philosophy |
Region | Russian philosophy |
School | Eurasianism |
Institutions | Saint Petersburg State University |
Doctoral advisor | Nikolai Kuehner |
Doctoral students | Gelian Prokhorov |
Main interests | Philosophy of history, history, ethnology, turkology, cultural studies, geopolitics, religious studies |
Notable ideas | Eurasianism, passionarity |
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Lev Nikolayevich Gumilev (also Gumilyov; Russian: Лев Никола́евич Гумилёв; 1 October [O.S. 18 September] 1912 – 15 June 1992) was a Soviet and Russian historian, ethnologist, anthropologist and translator. He had a reputation for his highly unorthodox theories of ethnogenesis and historiosophy. He was an exponent of Eurasianism. According to geographer Mark Bassin, Lev Gumilev, whose books have now sold millions of copies, can be compared in terms of influence to Herodotus, Karl Marx, Oswald Spengler or Albert Einstein.[1]