Vasile Pogor

Tags: Philosopher.

Vasile V. Pogor (Francized Basile Pogor; August 20 1833 – March 20 1906) was a Moldavian-born Romanian poet philosopher translator and liberal conservative politician one of the founders of Junimea literary society. Raised in the aristocratic circle of Iaşi and educated in the French Empire he had a career in law.

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birth date

1833-08-20

birth place

Moldavia, Iași

death date

1906-03-20

death place

Kingdom of Romania

era

19th-century philosophy

influenced

Titu Maiorescu, Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol, Theodor Rosetti

influenced by

Voltaire, Arthur Schopenhauer, Henry Thomas Buckle, Auguste Comte

main interest

Philosophy of history, Buddhist studies, Romanian philosophy

philosophicalSchool

Evolutionism, Liberal conservatism, Positivism, Junimea, Environmental determinism, Freethought

region

Western philosophy