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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.
Raïssa Maritain (1883-1960 [1]), née Raïssa Oumançoff, est une philosophe et poétesse française. Elle était l'épouse de Jacques Maritain , avec qui elle travailla et dont elle fut la compagne pendant plus d'un demi-siècle, au centre d'un cénacle d'intellectuels catholiques français.
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.
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.
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 ...
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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.
