Vasily Seseman

Vasily Seseman; 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. 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.