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)
Maitreyi Devi
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Maitreyi Devi was an Indian poet and novelist. She is best known for her Sahitya Akademi Award-winning novel, Na Hanyate.
Mircea Eliade
…and Romania. In 1930, while living with Dasgupta, Eliade fell in love with his host's daughter and the protege of the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, Maitreyi Devi, later writing a barely disguised autobiographical novel Maitreyi (also known as "La Nuit Bengali" or "Bengal Nights"), in which he claimed that he…
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