History & Society
Mircea Eliade
Romanian religious historian and author
Mircea Eliade
Category:
History & Society
- Born:
- March 9, 1907, Bucharest, Rom.
- Subjects Of Study:
- hierophany
- mysticism
- religion
- religious symbolism
- sacred
Mircea Eliade (born March 9, 1907, Bucharest, Rom.—died April 22, 1986, Chicago, Ill., U.S.) was a historian of religions, phenomenologist of religion, and author of novels, novellas, and short stories. Eliade was one of the most influential scholars of religion of the 20th century and one of the world’s foremost interpreters of religious symbolism and myth. Eliade studied philosophy at the University of Bucharest, receiving an M.A. in 1928 with a thesis on Italian Renaissance philosophy from Marsilio Ficino to Giordano Bruno. After studying in Calcutta primarily under the Sanskrit scholar Surendranath Dasgupta (1928–30), he spent six months practicing Yoga ...(100 of 1540 words)