Raïssa Maritain
Philosopher, Author
1883 – 1960
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Who was Raïssa Maritain?
Raïssa Oumansoff Maritain was a Russian poet and philosopher.
She emigrated to France and studied at the Sorbonne, where she met the young Jacques Maritain, also a philosopher, whom she married in 1904. She was raised Jewish but, following a period in which she considered herself an atheist, converted to Roman Catholicism with her husband in 1906.
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- Born
- 1883
Rostov-on-Don - Also known as
- Raissa Maritain
- Spouses
- Jacques Maritain
(1904 - )
- Jacques Maritain
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Education
- University of Paris
- Died
- 1960
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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