# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-piatigorsky
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:42:33.712Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-piatigorsky"
name: "Alexander Piatigorsky"
slug: "alexander-piatigorsky"
description: "Alexander Moiseyevich Piatigorsky was a Soviet dissident, Russian philosopher, scholar of Indian philosophy and culture, historian, philologist, semiotician, writer. Well-versed in the study of language, he knew Sanskrit, Tamil, Pali, Tibetan, German, Russian, French, Italian and English. In an obituary appearing in the English-language newspaper The Guardian, he was cited as \"a man who was widely considered to be one of the more significant thinkers of the age and Russia's greatest philosopher.\" On Russian television stations he was mourned as \"the greatest Russian philosopher.\""
tagline: "Russian philosopher (1929–2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alexander_Piatigorsky_by_Anton_Nossik.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1929-01-30"
deathDate: "2009-10-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.760563380281692
  historical:           8.194497333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Ալեքսանդր Պյատիգորսկի"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump