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
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)
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
Mircea Eliade
…All I wish for is a deep change, a complete transformation. But, for God's sake, in any direction other than spirituality. He and friends Emil Cioran and Constantin Noica were by then under the influence of Trăirism, a school of thought that was formed around the ideals expressed by Ionescu. A form…
Cioran in Romania, c. 1940s
Cioran's birthplace in Rășinari
Portrait of Cioran
The tomb of Cioran and Simone Boué