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Latest revision as of 16:36, 2 January 2011
Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) was a Romanian scholar.
Biography
Romanian historian of religion, writer, philosopher. Taught at the University of Bucharest, 1933-39. After the war was in France at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. In 1959 moved to the United States at the University of Chicago. Fluent in Romanian, French, German, Italian and English. Highly influential as a scholar, remained a controversial figure for his past support in Romania for fascist and anti-Semitic groups.
Works on Second Temple Judaism
Books
- ’’Histoire des croyances et des idées religieuses. Vol. 2: De Gautama Bouddha au triomphe du christianisme (Paris 1978) / A History of Religious Ideas. Vol. 2: From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity, tr. Williard R. Trask (Chicago 1982)