Russian Russian philosopher Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev (1874-1948) was a Russian religious and political philosopher, sociologist, representative of Russian existentialism and personalism.
In 1922, Berdyaev founded and headed the Religious and Philosophical Academy in Berlin. In 1924, he moved to Paris, where he lived until his death.
He was nominated seven times for the Nobel Prize in Literature (1942-1948).