| Isaiah Berlin  Born: 6-Jun-1909
Birthplace: Riga, Latvia
Died: 5-Nov-1997
Location of death: Oxford, England
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Philosopher Nationality: England
Executive summary: The Hedgehog and the Fox Father: Mendel Berlin
Mother: Marie Volshonok
Wife: Aline de Gunzbourg Halban (m. 1956)
High School: St. Paul's School, London
University: MA, Corpus Christi College, Oxford University (1935)
Teacher: Lecturer, New College, Oxford University (1932-38)
Professor: New College, Oxford University (1938-50)
Professor: All Souls College, Oxford University (1950-67)
Administrator: President, Wolfson College, Oxford University (1966-75)
Professor: All Souls College, Oxford University (1975-)
Erasmus Prize 1983 (shared)
Knighthood 1957
Author of books:
Karl Marx: His Life and Environment (1939)
The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History (1953)
Historical Inevitability (1959)
Mr. Churchill in 1940 (1964, essay)
Four Essays on Liberty (1969)
Russian Thinkers (1978)
Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays (1978)
Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas (1980)
Vico and Herder: Two Studies in the History of Ideas (1980)
Personal Impressions (1980)
Washington despatches, 1941-1945: Weekly political reports from the British Embassy (1981)
The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas (1990)
The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays (1997)
The Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and their History (1998)
Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder (2000)
The Roots of Romanticism (2001)
The Power of Ideas (2001)
Freedom and its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty (2002)
Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty (2002)
The Soviet Mind: Russian Culture Under Communism (2004)
Selected Letters 1928-1946 (2004)
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