Teodor Oizerman | |
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Teodor Ilyich Oizerman in 2012 | |
| Born | Teodor Ilyich Oizerman 14 May 1914 |
| Died | 25 March 2017 (aged 102) Moscow, Russia |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Soviet philosophy, Russian philosophy |
Main interests | History of Western and Marxist philosophy |
Teodor Ilyich Oizerman (Russian: Теодо́р Ильи́ч Ойзерма́н; 14 May 1914 – 25 March 2017) was a Soviet and Russian philosopher and academic.
Oizerman was born in a Jewish family. 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. He also served in the Anti-Zionist Committee of the Soviet Public.
Oizerman died on 25 March 2017 in Moscow of congestive heart failure at the age of 102.