Emil Cioran
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Emil Mihai Cioran was a Romanian philosopher, aphorist and essayist, who published works in both Romanian and French. His work has been noted for its pervasive philosophical pessimism, style, and apho
Cioran in Romania, c. 1940s
Cioran's birthplace in Rășinari
Portrait of Cioran
The tomb of Cioran and Simone Boué
Mircea Eliade
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Mircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. One of the most influential scholars of religion of the 20th century and in
Emil Cioran
…attend school, and at 17, he was enrolled in the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy at the University of Bucharest, where he met Eugène Ionesco and Mircea Eliade, who became his friends. Future Romanian philosopher Constantin Noica and future Romanian thinker Petre Țuțea became his closest academic colleagues…
Eliade in 1933
Eliade's home in Bucharest (1934–1940)
Eliade's grave at Oak Woods Cemetery
Moses taking off his shoes in front of the burning bush (illustration from a 16th-century edition of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis)