Isaiah Berlin

Life

Berlin was born into a Jewish family, the son of Mendel Berlin, a timber merchant, and his wife Marie, née Volshonok. He spent his childhood in Riga, Latvia and St Petersburg (then called Petrograd), witnessing the Russian Revolutions of 1917, and arriving with his family in Britain in 1921. In the UK, he was educated at St Paul's School, London, a private school, then at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he studied Greats (Classics) and PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics). He was to remain at Oxford for the rest of his life, apart from a period working for the British Information Services in New York (1940-2), the British Embassy in Washington, D.C. (1942-5), and Moscow (1945-6). In 1956, he married Aline Halban, née de Gunzbourg.

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Jewish - Timber - Merchant - Riga - Latvia - St Petersburg - Russian Revolution - Britain - St Paul's School - London - Corpus Christi College, Oxford - Classics - Philosophy, Politics and Economics - Oxford - New York - 1940 - 2 - Washington, D.C. - Moscow - 1956

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