Vasily Seseman

Vasily Seseman
Vasily Seseman
Lithuanian: Vosylius Sezemanas Russian: Василий Эмильевич Сеземан
	Seseman in 1912
Born	Wilhelm Sesemann; 11 June 1884 [O.S. 30 May]; Vyborg, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire
Died	23 March 1963 (aged 78); Vilnius, Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR
Occupations	Philosopher; professor;
Academic background
Education	Saint Petersburg Imperial University, 1903–1909; Philipps University of Marburg, 1909–1911; Humboldt University of Berlin, 1909–1911 ;
Influences	Nikolay Lossky; Edmund Husserl; Max Scheler; Nicolai Hartmann;

Vasily Seseman (Lithuanian: Vosylius Sezemanas, Russian: Василий Эмильевич Сеземан); 1884–1963) was a Baltic philosopher and professor of Finnish, Russian, Lithuanian and Baltic German descent. A representative of neo-Kantianism, Seseman is mostly remembered for his role in fostering philosophy in newly independent Lithuania and developing Lithuanian philosophical vocabulary (most remarkable are his translations of Aristotle into Lithuanian and contributions to Lithuanian encyclopedias). A close associate of Viktor Zhirmunsky and Lev Karsavin, as a prisoner of Gulag he was also an informal philosophy tutor and supporter of Buddhist writer Bidia Dandaron.