Isaiah Berlin Biography

Isaiah Berlin biography

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NAME: Isaiah Berlin
OCCUPATION: Educator, Historian, Philosopher, Scholar, Academic Author, Journalist
BIRTH DATE: June 06, 1909
DEATH DATE: November 05, 1997
EDUCATION: Corpus Christi College, Oxford

PLACE OF BIRTH: Riga, Latvia
PLACE OF DEATH: Oxford, England

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Sir Isaiah Berlin was a social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas, regarded as one of the leading thinkers of the 21st century.

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Sir Isaiah Berlin was a theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas, one of the leading thinkers of the 21st century. From 1957 to 1967, he was a Professor of Social and Political Theory at the University of Oxford. His essay "The Hedgehog and the Fox" was his most popular work, reprinted in numerous editions. His other writings often deal with individual liberties. Berlin was knighted in 1957.