Sergei Nikolaevich Trubetskoy

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Prince Sergei Nikolayevich Trubetskoy ( Russian Князь Сергей Николаевич Трубецкой '; born July 23, jul. / 4. August  1862 greg. In Ujesd Sergiev Posad , † September 29 jul. / 12. October  1905 greg. In St. Petersburg ) was a Russian religious philosopher and author .

Life

Sergei Trubezkoi, son of the musicologist and patron Prince Nikolai Petrovich Trubezkoi from the noble family Trubezkoi and his second wife Sofi Alexejewna born. Lopuchina (1841–1901), grew up with numerous siblings in the country. In 1874 he entered one of the best private high schools in Russia with his younger brother Yevgeny in Moscow . In 1877 he switched to the Kaluga Public High School for boys when his father was appointed vice governor there.

In 1881 both brothers Sergei and Yevgeny entered the Law Faculty of Moscow University . Two weeks later, however, Sergei switched to the Faculty of History and Philology to study first in the historical and then in the classical department. He had been interested in philosophy since the fourth grade of high school , and at the age of 16 he became enthusiastic about Anglo - French positivism . Reading the history of Kuno Fischer's New Philosophy in 7th grade marked the beginning of a critical philosophy course. The turn to the philosophy of religion resulted from reading a brochure by Alexei Stepanowitsch Khomjakow . In his student years he got to know the works of Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov , who became his friend.

In 1885 Trubetskoi finished his studies, but stayed at the chair of philosophy to prepare for a professorship. In 1889 he was with his dissertation The Metaphysics in Ancient Greece for Master PhD . In 1900 he completed his habilitation with the book The Doctrine of Logos and Its History and was appointed associate professor . In 1904 he became a full professor and gave almost all historical and philosophical lectures: philosophy of the church fathers , history of ancient philosophies, of more recent philosophies and Christian thought in the first century as well as the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle .

In 1887 Trubezkoi married Princess Praskovia Vladimirovna Obolenskaya (1860-1914). In 1895 he and his family settled in Uskoye, the family seat of the Trubezkois . His sons Nikolai and Vladimir were pictured by his cousin, the sculptor Paolo Troubetzkoy , who had also settled there.

1900–1905 Trubezkoi edited the journal questions of philosophy and psychology . As a follower of the philosopher Vladimir Sergejewitsch Solowjow , he devoted himself particularly to the context and the mutual influence of philosophy and religion as the basis of Christian doctrine and thereby also to questions of immortality . With his law of universal correlation he attempted to bring rationalism , empiricism and mysticism together. In 1902 he was appointed to the State Council, in 1903 he was sent abroad, and in 1904 he was awarded the Greek Order of the Redeemer 4th degree.

During the revolution of 1905 after the introduction of the new provisional administrative regulations for higher education institutions of the Ministry of Popular Education by Ukas Nicholas II on August 27, 1905, the University Council elected the 43-year-old Trubetskoi as the first elected rector of Moscow University on September 2, 1905, which is his made clear great authority in the university college. However, due to the increasing student unrest, he left the university on September 22, which, however, made the situation even worse. On September 29, at the Ministry of National Education in St. Petersburg , he suffered a fatal cerebral haemorrhage.

Trubetskoy was buried in the Moscow Donskoy Monastery cemetery. He left behind his wife Praskovia Vladimirovna née. Obolenskaja (1860–1914) and three children, the daughter Marija (1888–1934), who emigrated to France with her husband Count Apollinarij Konstantinowitsch Chreptowitsch-Butenew and whose great-granddaughter Marija Sozzani married the poet Joseph Brodsky , the linguist Nikolai Sergejewitsch Trubetzkoy (1890 –1938) and the writer Wladimir Sergejewitsch Trubetzkoy (1892–1937).

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personal data
SURNAME Trubetskoi, Sergei Nikolajewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Трубецко́й, Серге́й Никола́евич (Russian spelling); Trubeckoj, Sergei Nikolaevich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian religious philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Ujesd Sergiev Posad
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1905
Place of death St. Petersburg