Fyodor Stepun was a Russian

Russians

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 and German

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 writer, philosopher, historian

Historian

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 and sociologist. Fyodor Stepun, known also as Friedrich Steppuhn, was deported from the USSR in 1922 and since then has been living and working in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 - first in Berlin

Berlin

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 and Dresden

Dresden

Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....

, then in Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

, where, from 1946, he was the professor of Munich University. A fierce opponent of Bolshevism, as well as Nazism

Nazism

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, Stepun's philosophical doctrine was described as neo-Kantist transcendentalism

Transcendentalism

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 linked with religious metaphysics, close to the ideas of Vladimir Solovyov

Vladimir Solovyov

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 and Nikolai Berdyaev

Nikolai Berdyaev

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