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Mircea Eliade ( March 9 1907, Bucharest - April 22 1986, Chicago) was a Romanian historian of religions and writer ( fantasy and autobiographical). He spoke 8 languages fluently ( Romanian, French, German, Italian, English, Hebrew, PersianPersian , also known as Farsi (local name), Parsi Tajiki or Dari is a language spoken in Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. It has official-language status in the first three countries. There are over 75 million native speakers. It belongs to t and Sanskrit). In 1928Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 See also 1928 in aviation 1928 in film 1928 in literature 1928 in mu, at the University of BucharestUniversity of Bucharest is a university founded in 1864 by decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former St. Sabba Academy into the current University of Bucharest. The area around the University, adjacent to the Theodor Rossetti, Roman Squar, he met Emile CioranEmil Mihai Cioran (known in French as mile Michel Cioran ( April 8, 1911 June 20, 1995) was a writer noted for his somber works in the French language. He was born in Rasinari, Sibiu, Austria-Hungary (present-day Romania) the son of a Romanian Orthodox pr and Eugène IonescoEugene Ionesco ( Romanian spelling: Eugen Ionescu) ( November 26, 1912 March 28, 1994) was one of the foremost playwrights of the theater of the absurd. Beyond ridiculing the most banal situations, Ionesco's plays depict in a tangible way the solitude of, and the three became lifelong friends. He has been criticized for alleged connections in his youth with Garda de Fier (The Iron Guard), an extreme-right-wing political organization. However, it is not at all clear that the personal associations of his youth had any great influence on his scholarly production, which began after a long period of study in India.
In his work on the history of religion, he is most regarded for his writings on shamanismShamanism is a range of traditional beliefs and practices that involve the ability to diagnose, cure, and sometimes cause illness because of a special relationship with, or control over, spirits. This tradition has existed all over the world since prehist, yoga and cosmological myths.
His thinking has been greatly influenced by - and has helped to popularise - the work of the Traditionalist School.
1 Selected Scholarly Works
- Yoga, Immortality and Freedom. Translated, W. Trask. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958. First published in French as Yoga: Essai sur l'origine de la mystique Indienne in 1933, this informative and scholarly work analyses yoga as a concrete search for freedom from human limitations.
- Cosmos and History:The Myth of the Eternal Return. Translated W. Trask. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1954. Perhaps Eliade's most crucial and approachable short work. Contains his analysis of time as heterogenous for the religious and homogenous for the non-religious and his conception of the 'terror of history' and the ability to 'reactualize' religious time. Originally published as Le Mythe de l'eternel retour: archétypes et répetition, 1949.
- Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. Translated, W. Trask. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964. Long a standard work in the study of Shamanism, a detailed and valuable source of information on the phenomenon. Originally published Le Chamanisme, 1951.
- From Primitives To Zen (full text)
