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Raïssa Maritain (née Oumansoff) (September 12, 1883 in Rostov-on-Don – November 4, 1960 in Paris [1]) was a French poet and philosopher. She was the wife of Jacques Maritain, with whom she worked and whose companion she was for more than half a century, at the center of a circle of French Catholic intellectuals.
Raïssa Maritain was born into a pious Jewish family of modest means in the Russian port city of Rostov-on-Don in 1883. When she was two years old, her father, who was a tailor, moved his family to the Ukrainian port of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov.
Jan 29, 2021 · Raissa Maritain was born in 1883 in Russia to a pious, Jewish family. From a young age, Raissa was known to be academically gifted, and so to secure her ability to pursue education her family emigrated to France.
Aug 9, 2021 · Raïssa Maritain: more than a mystic. Driven by a desire for intellectual and spiritual truth, Raïssa Maritain's writings search for peace and justice - but are sadly forgotten in our own time. ‘Raissa Maritain, 1883-1960/And Jacques, 1882-1974’ reads the tombstone in the small cemetery of Kolbsheim, in Alsace.
Maritain, Raïssa (1883–1960) Russian-born French writer, wife and collaborator of the philosopher Jacques Maritain, who played a key role with her husband in the revival of Catholic intellectual life and advocated for a modern rekindling of the thoughts of the medieval philosopher St. Thomas Aquinas . Name variations: Raissa Maritain ...
Oct 1, 2013 · Raïssa Maritain was a Russian Jew who, with her husband Jacques, born a Protestant, converted to Catholicism in 1906. Along with a number of other convertis, both became prominent members of the intellectual and artistic renouveau catholique in France.
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Apr 2, 2024 · Raïssa Maritain died in 1960, after which Jacques lived with the Little Brothers of Jesus in Toulouse, France. He died in 1973 amid rumors that Pope Paul VI had wanted to make him a “lay ...
