Ivan Panin

Born in Russia in 1855, Ivan Panin was involved in revolutionary circles as a young man and later left the country. He eventually settled in North America, studied at Harvard, and built a career as a writer and independent scholar.

Panin is most closely associated with his studies of the Bible, especially his attempt to show numerical patterns in the biblical texts. That work made him a distinctive and sometimes controversial figure, but it also earned him a lasting place in the history of religious publishing.

He died in 1942. Readers who come to Panin today usually meet a thinker driven by exactness, argument, and an intense belief that careful study could reveal deeper order in scripture.