Mircea Eliade

Mircea Eliade was born on 9 March 1907 in Bucharest, where he studied philosophy. From 1928 to 1931, he stayed in India and studied in Calcutta under the Sanskritist Surendranath Dasgupta, then defended a thesis on yoga. In the late thirties, he publicly supported the Legionary movement. Cultural attaché in London in 1940, then in Lisbon, he lived in Paris after the war and from 1956 taught the history of religions at the University of Chicago, where he died on 22 April 1986.

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• NovelBengal NightsMaitreyiMircea Eliade · 1933Literature