List of Famous people with last name Eliade

Pompiliu Eliade

First Name Pompiliu

Born on April 13, 1870

Died on May 24, 1914 (aged 44)

Born in Romania

Pompiliu Eliade was a Romanian literary critic and historian.

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Mircea Eliade

First Name Mircea

Last Name Eliade

Born on March 9, 1907

Died on April 22, 1986 (aged 79)

Born in Romania

Mircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day. His theory that hierophanies form the basis of religion, splitting the human experience of reality into sacred and profane space and time, has proved influential. One of his most instrumental contributions to religious studies was his theory of eternal return, which holds that myths and rituals do not simply commemorate hierophanies, but, at least to the minds of the religious, actually participate in them.

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