Alexander Herzen

Tags: Philosopher.

Alexander Ivanovich Herzen (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Ге́рцен; April 6 [O.S. 25 March] 1812 – January 21 [O.S. 9 January] 1870) was a Russian writer and thinker known as the father of Russian socialism and one of the main fathers of agrarian populism (being an ideological ancestor of the Narodniki Socialist-Revolutionaries Trudoviks and the agrarian American Populist Party). He is held responsible for creating a political climate leading to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861.

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birth date

1812-04-06

birth place

Moscow, Russia, Russian Empire

death date

1870-01-21

death place

Paris, France, Second French Empire

era

19th-century philosophy

influenced

Jean-Paul Sartre, Leon Trotsky, Mao Zedong, Peter Kropotkin, Isaiah Berlin, Frankfurt School, Che Guevara, Vladimir Lenin

influenced by

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

main interest

Economics, Russia, Class conflict

notableIdea

Agrarianism, Collectivism, Socialism, Populism

philosophicalSchool

Agrarianism