Teodor Oizerman

Teodor Ilyich Oizerman (Russian: Теодо́р Ильи́ч Ойзерма́н; 14 May 1914 – 25 March 2017) was a Soviet and Russian philosopher and academic.^[1]

Teodor Oizerman
Teodor Ilyich Oizerman in 2012
Born	Teodor Ilyich Oizerman (1914-05-14)14 May 1914 Petroverovka, Russian Empire
Died	25 March 2017(2017-03-25) (aged 102) Moscow, Russia
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Soviet philosophy, Russian philosophy
Main interests	History of Western and Marxist philosophy

Career

Oizerman was born in a Jewish family.^[2] He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences from 1981 until his death. He received a doctorate, honoris causa, from the University of Jena in 1979 and the USSR State Prize in 1983. In 1979 Oizerman was awarded the Plekhanov prize for the monograph The Main Trends in Philosophy.^[3] He also served in the Anti-Zionist Committee of the Soviet Public.^[4]

Death

Oizerman died on 25 March 2017 in Moscow of congestive heart failure at the age of 102.^[5]