Raïssa Maritain (née Oumansoff) (12 September 1883 in Rostov-on-Don – 4 November 1960 in Paris) was a Russian poet and philosopher. She immigrated to France and studied at the

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, where she met the young Jacques Maritain, also a philosopher, whom she married in 1904. She was raised Jewish but, following a period in which she considered herself an atheist, converted to

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with her husband in 1906.

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* Moore, Brenna. (2013).''Sacred dread: Raïssa Maritain, the allure of suffering, and the French Catholic revival (1905-1944)''. Notre Dame, Ind: Univ. of Notre Dame Press. 1883 births 1960 deaths Converts to Roman Catholicism from atheism or agnosticism Converts to Roman Catholicism from Judaism 19th-century Jews from the Russian Empire 20th-century French philosophers French Roman Catholics Emigrants from the Russian Empire to France Writers from Rostov-on-Don 20th-century French poets University of Paris alumni {{France-poet-stub