Osip Gelfond

Summary

Osip Isaakovich Gelfond (Russian: Осип Ге́льфонд) (1868–1942)[1] was a Russian physician and Marxist philosopher.

Osip studied at the University of Paris, gaining a medical degree in 1896. He married Musia Gershevna in 1899, who had also recently graduated with a medical degree from the Sorbonne. Gelfond was friends with Anatoly Lunacharsky, Lazar Lagin and Lev Tumarkin. [1]

He participated in a seminar held in St Petersburg in 1908 by the Russian Machists which led to the publication of Studies in the Philosophy of Marxism.[2][3]

He was the father of Alexander Gelfond, born in 1906.

References edit

  1. ^ a b Yandell, Ben (2001). The Honors Class: Hilbert's Problems and Their Solvers. Boca Ranton: CRC Press. ISBN 9781439864227.
  2. ^ Lenin, Vladimir (1909). Materialism and Empirio-criticism. Moscow: Zveno Publishers. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
  3. ^ "Эмпириокритицизм Понятия и категории". ponjatija.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 28 February 2018.