Rowse remarked that Isaiah was “unintelligible in several languages.”īerlin’s family immigrated to Great Britain in the early 1920s resulting in the mature thinker identifying with three distinct selves: British, Russian, and Jewish. It was once said that he was the man who pronounced epistemological with one syllable.
Born in Riga in 1909, then part of the Russian Empire, his first language was Russian and he forever spoke a distinctive accented English with a rapid-fire delivery, as his ideas seemed to tumble out faster than his words. His name was synonymous with erudition, voluble talk, and scholarly sophistication. Upon his death in 1997 at the age of 88, the philosopher and historian of ideas, Isaiah Berlin, was considered by many to be the dominant British scholar of his generation.
In Search of Isaiah Berlin: A Literary Adventure
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