Pavel Florensky

The Reverend Pavel Florensky
Father Pavel Florensky
Born	Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky 21 January 1882 Yevlakh, Elisabethpol Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	8 December 1937(1937-12-08) (aged 55) Leningrad Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR
Alma mater	Imperial Moscow University
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Russian philosophy
School	Christian philosophy Sophiology
Academic advisors	Nikolai Bugaev
Main interests	Philosophy of religion

Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky (also P. A. Florenskiĭ, Florenskii, Florenskij; Russian: Па́вел Алекса́ндрович Флоре́нский; Armenian: Պավել Ֆլորենսկի, romanized: Pavel Florenski; 21 January [O.S. 9 January] 1882 – December 8, 1937) was a Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, electrical engineer, inventor, polymath, neomartyr and folk saint.^[1] During the later twentieth century, statements had appeared noting a recognition by the Russian Orthodox Church of him as a saint, though it was later firmly noted that no such decision had been made.^[2]