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** Ioan P. Culianu, ''Mircea Eliade'', Bucharest: Nemira, 1995, 2nd ed., 1998; 3rd ed., Iaşi: Polirom, 2004. {{ro}}
 
** Ioan P. Culianu, ''Mircea Eliade'', Bucharest: Nemira, 1995, 2nd ed., 1998; 3rd ed., Iaşi: Polirom, 2004. {{ro}}
  
* Florin Ţurcanu, ''Mircea Eliade. Prizonierul istoriei'', trans. Monica Anghel & Dragoş Dodu, Bucharest: Humanitas, 2005.
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* Roberto Scagno, ''Il terrore della storia. Genesi e significato dell’antistoricismo di Mircea Eliade'', Turin, 1982. {{it}}
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* Roberto Scagno with M. Mincu, ''Mircea Eliade e l’'Italia'', Milan, 1987. {{it}}
  
 
* Mac Linscott Ricketts, ''Mircea Eliade. The Romanian Roots, 1907-1945'', 2 vols., New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. {{en}}
 
* Mac Linscott Ricketts, ''Mircea Eliade. The Romanian Roots, 1907-1945'', 2 vols., New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. {{en}}
  
 
* David Cave, [[Media:Cave_David_Mircea_Eliade_s_Vision_for_a_New_Humanism_1993.pdf|''Mircea Eliade's Vision for a New Humanism'']], New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. {{en}}
 
* David Cave, [[Media:Cave_David_Mircea_Eliade_s_Vision_for_a_New_Humanism_1993.pdf|''Mircea Eliade's Vision for a New Humanism'']], New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. {{en}}
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* Florin Ţurcanu, ''Mircea Eliade. Prizonierul istoriei'', trans. Monica Anghel & Dragoş Dodu, Bucharest: Humanitas, 2005.
  
 
* Claudia Guggenbühl, '' [http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/savifadok/149/1/Guggenbuehl_Eliade_DasGupta_Gesamt2.pdf Mircea Eliade and Surendranath Dasgupta. The History of their Encounter]'', Zürich, 2008. {{en}}
 
* Claudia Guggenbühl, '' [http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/savifadok/149/1/Guggenbuehl_Eliade_DasGupta_Gesamt2.pdf Mircea Eliade and Surendranath Dasgupta. The History of their Encounter]'', Zürich, 2008. {{en}}

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Mircea Eliade, december 1930, Rishikesh, Himalayas.
Born March 9, 1907(1907-03-09)
Bucharest, Romania
Died April 22, 1986(1986-04-22) (aged 79)
Chicago, USA
Web Wikipedia.

Mircea Eliade (1907–1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He is known for his research of the symbolic language used by various religious traditions.

Eliade received an M.A. in philosophy from the University of Bucharest in 1928. He studied Sanskrit and Indian philosophy at the University of Calcutta (1928-31) and then lived for six months in the Ashram (hermitage) of Rishikesh, Himalayas. After returning to Romania, he earned his Ph.D. in 1933 with the dissertation Yoga: Essai sur les origines de la mystique indienne [Yoga: Essay on the Origins of Indian Mysticism] and was named assistant professor at Bucharest, where he taught the history of religions and Indian philosophy (1933-39). In 1945 he went to Paris as a visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études of the Sorbonne. In 1956 he became professor of the history of religions at the University of Chicago. In 1961 he founded the journal History of Religions.

Works

Scholarly works

Thesis

  • Yoga. Essai sur les origines de la mystique indienne, Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Guethner, 1936 (Ph.D. thesis presented in Bucharest in 1933). (in French)

Monographs

  • O, Oceanografie, Bucharest: Cultura Poporului, 1934.
    • Oceanografia, Roberto Scagno (editor), intro R. Scagno, trans. Cristina Fantechi, Milan: Jaca Book, 2007. (Italian)
  • AA, Alchimia asiatică, Bucharest: Cultura Poporului, 1934.
  • CAB, Cosmologie şi alchimie babiloniană, 1937; 2nd ed., Iaşi: Moldova, 1991, PDF.
  • MMA, Metallurgy, Magic, and Alchemy, Paris: Guenther, 1938. (English)
  • F, Fragmentarium, Bucharest: Vremea, 1939.
    • Fragmentarium, trans. Alain Paruit, L'herne, 1989. (French)
  • MR, Mitul reintegrării, Bucharest: Vremea, 1942.
  • TY, Techniques du Yoga, Paris: Gallimard, 1948. (French)
    • Tehnici Yoga, trans. Mihaela Cosmna, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2000, PDF.
  • THR Traité d'histoire des religions, Paris: Payot, 1949. (French)
    • Patterns of Comparative Religion, trans. Rosemary Sheed, London: Sheed and Ward, 1958. (English)
    • Trattato di storia delle religioni, trans. Virginia Vacca, Turin: Editore Boringhieri, 1976, PDF. (Italian)
  • MER, Le Mythe de l'éternel retour. Archétypes et répétition, Paris: Gallimard, 1949. (French)
    • Cosmos and History: The Myth of the Eternal Return, trans. Willard R. Trask, Pantheon Books, 1954; New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959, PDF. (English)
    • El mito del eterno retorno. Arquetipos y repeticion, trans. Ricardo Anaya, Buenos Aires: Emecé, 2001, PDF. (Spanish)
    • Mitul eternei reîntoarceri. Arhetipuri şi repetare, trans. Maria Ivănescu & Cezar Ivănescu, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 1999, PDF.
  • CTAE, Le Chamanisme et les techniques archaiques de l'extase, Paris: Payot, 1951; 2nd ed., 1968, IA; 1974; 1978; 1983. (French)
    • Şamanismul şi tehnicile arhaice ale extazului, trans. Brînduşa Prelipceanu and Cezar Baltag, Bucharest: Humanitas, 1997, PDF.
    • Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, trans. Willard Trask, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1964. (English)
  • IS, Images et Symboles. Essais sur le symbolisme magico-religieux, Paris: Gallimard, 1952. (French)
    • Images and Symbols: Studies in Religious Symbolism, trans. Philip Mairet, London: Harvill Press, 1961. (English)
    • Imagini şi simboluri, trans. Alexandra Beldescu, Bucharest: Humanitas, 1994, PDF.
  • FA, Forgerons et alchimistes, Paris: Flammarion, 1956; 1977. (French)
    • The Forge and the Crucible, trans. Stephen Corrin, London: Rider, 1962. (English)
    • Făurari şi alchimişti, trans. Maria Ivănescu and Cezar Ivănescu, Bucharest: Humanitas, 1996, PDF.
  • MRM, Mythes, rêves et mystères, Paris: Gallimard, 1957. (French)
    • Myths, Dreams and Mysteries: The Encounter between Contemporary Faiths and Archaic Realities, London: Harvill Press, 1960. (English)
    • Mituri, vise şi mistere, trans. Maria Ivănescu and Cezar Ivănescu, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 1998, PDF.
  • SP, Das Heilige und das Profane, 1957. (German)
    • The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion, trans. Willard R. Trask, London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1959; 1963, PDF. [1] (English)
    • Le sacré et le profane, Paris: Gallimard, 1965, PDF; Paris: Folio, 1988. (French)
    • Sacrul şi profanul, trans. Brânduşa Prelipceanu, Bucharest: Humanitas, 2000, PDF; 3rd ed., 2005.
  • NM, Naissances mystiques. Essai sur quelques types d'initiation, Paris: Gallimard, 1958. (French)
    • Rites and Symbols of Inititation (Birth and Rebirth), trans. Willard Trask, London: Harvill Press, 1958. His 1956 Haskell Lectures at the University of Chicago. (English)
    • Naşteri mistice, trans. Mihaela Grigore Paraschivescu, Bucharest: Humanitas, 1995, PDF.
  • PY, Patanjali et le Yoga, Paris: Seuil, 1962. (French)
    • Patañjali and Yoga, trans. Charles Lam Markmann, New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1969. (English)
    • Patanjali y el Yoga, trans. Osvaldo Svanascini, Buenos Aires: Paidos, 1978, PDF. (Spanish)
    • Patanjali şi Yoga, trans. Walter Fotescu, Bucharest: Humanitas, 1992, PDF.
  • MA, Méphisophélès et l'androgyne, Paris: Gallimard, 1962. (French)
    • The Two and the One, trans. J. M. Cohen, University of Chicago Press, 1965. (English)
    • Mefistotel şi androginul, trans. Alexandra Cuniţă, Bucharest: Humanitas, 1995, PDF.
    • Mefistofele e l'androgine, trans. Enrico Pinto, Rome: Mediterranne, 1971; 1995, PDF. (Italian)
  • AM, Aspects du mythe, Paris: Gallimard, 1963. (French)
    • Myth and Reality, trans. Ruth Nanda Anshen, New York: Harper & Row, 1963. (English)
    • Mito e realtà, Torino: Boria, trans. Giovanni Cantoni, 1966, PDF,IA (Italian)
    • Aspecte ale mitului, trans. Paul G. Dinopol, Bucharest: Univers, 1978, PDF.
    • Aspektue mifa, 2000, PDF; Moscow: Академический Проект 2010. (Russian)
    • 'Aspekti Mita, trans. Natasa Pejovic, Zagreb: Demetra, 2004, PDF. (Croatian)
  • FPTZ, From Primitives to Zen. A Sourcebook in Comparative Religion, New York: Harper & Row, 1967; Nebulous Cargo, 1996. HTML. (English)
  • NO, The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1969; reprint, Midway, 1984, PDF. (English)
    • La nostalgie des origines. Methodologie et historie des religions, Paris: Gallimard, 1971, PDF. (French)
    • Nostalgia originilor. Istorie şi semnificaţie în religie, trans. Cezar Baltag, Bucharest: Humanitas, 1994, PDF.
  • ZGK, De Zalmoxis a Gengis-Khan, Paris: Payot, 1970. (French)
    • Da Zalmoxis a Gengis-Khan, Rome: Ubaldini Editore, 1975, PDF. (Italian)
    • De la Zalmoxis la Ghenghis-Han. Studii comparatice despre religiile şi folclorul Daciei şi Europei Orientale, trans. Maria Ivănescu and Cezar Ivănescu, Bucharest: Ştiinţifică şi enciclopedică, 1980; Bucharest: Humanitas, 1995, PDF.
    • Zalmoxis, the Vanishing God, trans. Willard Trask, University of Chicago Press, 1972. (English)
  • RA, Australian Religion, Cornell University Press, 1973. (English)
  • Occultism, Occultism, Witchcraft, and Cultural Fashion: Essays in Comparative Religion, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1976; 1978, PDF, PDF. (English)
    • Occultisme, sorcellerie et modes culturelles, 1978. (French)
    • Ocultism, vrăjitorie şi mode culturale. Eseuri de religie comparată, trans. Elena Bortă, Bucharest: Humanitas, 1997, PDF.
  • HCIR, Histoire des croyances el des idees religieuses, vol. 1, De l'âge de la pierre aux mystères d’Eleusis, 1976; vol. 2, De Gautama Bouddha au triomphe du christianisme, 1976; vol. 3, De Mahomet à l’âge des Réformes, 1983; Paris: Payot, 1976-83. (French)
    • A History of Religious Ideas, trans. Willard R. Trask, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, vol. I, 1978, PDF; vol. II, 1982, PDF ; vol. III, trans. Alf Hiltebeitel and Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, 1985; 1988, PDF. (English)
    • Historia de las creencias y las ideas religiosas, 4 vols., trans. Jesús Valiente Malla, Madrid: Cristiandad, 1978-80; Barcelona: Paidós Ibérica, 1999. I, De La Edad De Piedra a Los Misterios De Eleusis Orientalia, PDF; II, De Gautama Buda al triunfo del cristianismo, PDF; III, De Mahoma a la era de las Reformas, PDF; IV, Las Religiones en sus textos, PDF. (in Spanish)
    • Istoria credinţelor şi ideilor religioase, trans. Cezar Baltag, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2000, 800 pp.

Selected essays

  • Soliloquii/ Solilocvii, Bucharest: Inst. de arte Grafice "Bucovina", I.E. Torouţiu, 1932; reprint, as a supplement of magazine "Nu", Cluj, 1990; reprint as book, Bucharest: Humanitas, 1991; 2003 [2].
  • Yoga. Eseu asupra originilor misticii indiene, trans. Mircea Eliade, Bucharest: Fundaţia pentru Literatură şi Artă Regele Carol II, 1936.
    • Yoga. Immortality and Freedom, trans. Willard Trask, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958; 2nd ed., London: Routledge, 1969. (English)
    • Yoga. Unsterblichkeit und Freiheit, Zürich and Stuttgart: Rascher, 1960. (German)
    • Yoga. Nemurire şi libertate, trans. Walter Fotescu, Bucharest: Humanitas, 1993, PDF.
  • Comentarii la Legenda Meşterului Manole, Bucharest: Editura Publicom, 1943, PDF.

Edited books

  • with Ioan P. Couliano, Dictionnaire des religions, Paris: Plon, 1990, PDF. (French)
    • Dicţionar al religiilor, trans. Cezar Baltag, Bucharest: Humanitas, 1993, PDF.
    • with Hillary Wiesner, The Eliade Guide to World Religions, 1992; reprint as, The Harper Collins Concise Guide to World Religions, 2000. (English)
  • Psihologia meditaţiei indiene. Studii despre Yoga, Bucharest: Jurnalul Literar, 1992, PDF.

Selected works

  • Drumul spre centrul, eds. Gabriel Liiceanu and Andrei Pleşu, Bucharest: Univers, Humanitas, 1991, PDF. Contains Oceanografie, Fragmentarium, Insula lui Euthanasius, Mitul reintegrării, Comenatrii la Legenda Meşterului Manole & Alchimia asiatică.

Fiction

Novels

  • Maitreyi, Cultura națională, 1933.
    • La Nuit Bengali, Paris: Gallimard, 1950. (French)
    • Mayitreyi, Bengal Nights, 1993. (English)
  • Domnișoara Christina [Miss Christina], 1936.
  • Nuntă în cer, Bucharest: Editura Cugetarea, 1938; reprint, Bucharest: Minerva, 1986; Bucharest: Humanitas, 2003; Muşăteşti: Tana, 2007. Review
  • Forêt interdite, Paris: Gallimard, 1955. (French)
    • Noaptea de Sânziene, 1971.
    • The Forbidden Forest, 1978. (English)
  • Isabel şi apele diavolului.
    • Isabel and the Devil's Waters. (English)
  • Tinereţi fără de Tinereţi, in Revista scriitilorilor români, 15 (1978), pp 49-82, and 16 (1979), pp 33-73.
    • Le Temps d’un centenaire, Paris: Gallimard, 1982. (French)
    • Youth Without Youth, trans. Mac Linscott Ricketts, Ohio State University Press, 1988; University of Chicago Press, 2007. [3] (English)
  • Romanul Adolescentului Miop & Gaudeamus, Bucharest: Minerva, 1989; Bucharest: Litera, 2009. Ten chapters of Romanul.. first appeared serialized in the magazine Manuscriptum (2-4/1983 and 1/1987). Gaudeamus was first published by Muzeul Literaturii Române in 1988.

Bibliographies

Printed

  • Mircea Eliade : a check-list of his publications in the history of religions, compiled by Ann Pritchard and D.E. Fitch., Santa Barbara : University of California Library, 1968.
  • Joseph M. Kitagawa and Charles H. (eds.), Myths and Symbols. Studies in Honor of Mircea Eliade, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1969, pp. 417-433.
  • D.A. Doing, A Biography of Mircea Eliade's Spiritual and Intellectual Development from 1917 to 1940, University of Ottawa, 1975, pp. I-LXXXIII. (Phd Thesis)
  • R.W. Kraay, Symbols in Paradox: A Theory of Communication based on the Writings of Mircea Eliade, Iowa University, 1977. (Phd Thesis)
  • Douglas Allen, Denis Doeing, Mircea Eliade. An Annotated Bibliography, New York and London: Garland, 1980.
  • Bryan Rennie, Reconstructing Eliade: Making Sense of Religion, State University of New York Press, 1996, pp. 261-286.
  • Mircea Handoca, Mircea Eliade. Biobibliografie, Receptarea critică 1925-1986, Bucharest: Jurnal Literar, 1997.
  • Mircea Handoca, Mircea Eliade (1907-1986). Biobibliografie, 3 vols., Bucharest: Jurnal Literar, 1997-99; vol. 4, Bucharest: Criterion, 2007.

Online

Interviews

  • L'Epreuve du Labyrinthe (entretiens avec CL.-H. Rocquet), Belfond, 1978. (in French)
    • Ordeal by Labyrinth. Conversations with Claude-Henri Rocquet, trans. Derek Coltman, University of Chicago Press, 1982. (in English)
    • Încercarea labirintului, trans. Doina Cornea, Cluj-Napoca: Dacia, 1990.

Correspondence

  • Mircea Handoca (ed.), Mircea Eliade şi corespondenţii săi, 5 vols., Bucharest: Minerva, 1993-2007.
  • Jurnalul portughez şi alte scrieri (1941-1945) , 2 vols., Bucharest: Humanitas, 2006. Review, Review.
    • Diario portoghese, trans. Cristina Fantechi, Milan: Jaca Book, 2009. (in Italian)
    • The Portugal Journal, trans. Mac Linscott Ricketts, New York: State University of New York, 2010. [4] (in English)
  • Mircea Handoca (ed.), Europa, Asia, America... Corespondenţă A-H, I-P, R-Z, Bucharest: Humanitas, 1999; 2004. I, Corespondenţă. A-H, PDF; II, Corespondenţă. I-P, PDF; III, Corespondenţă. R-Z, PDF.

Diaries

  • Les promesses de l'Equinoxe. Mémoire I (1907-1937), trans. Constantin N. Grigoresco, Paris: Gallimard, 1980. (in French)
    • Autobiography, Vol. 1: 1907-1937: Journey East, Journey West, Harper and Row, 1981. (in English)
  • Les moissons du solstice. Mémoire II (1937-1960), trans. Alain Paruit, Paris: Gallimard, 1988. (in French)
  • Fragments d'un Jounal, I (1945-1969), trans. Luc Badesco, Paris: Gallimard, 1973. (in French)
  • Fragments d'un Journal, II (1970-1978), trans. C. Grigoresco, Paris: Gallimard, 1973. (in French)
  • Journal, III (1970-1978) trans. Teresa Lavender Fagan, 1989. (in English)
  • Journal, IV (1979-1985), trans.Mac Linscott Ricketts, 1990. (in English)

Literature

Monographs

  • Ioan P. Culianu, Mircea Eliade, Assisi: Cittadella Editrice, 1978; 2nd ed., Rome: Settimo Sigillo, 2008. (Italian)
    • Ioan P. Culianu, Mircea Eliade, Bucharest: Nemira, 1995, 2nd ed., 1998; 3rd ed., Iaşi: Polirom, 2004. (Romanian)
  • Roberto Scagno, Il terrore della storia. Genesi e significato dell’antistoricismo di Mircea Eliade, Turin, 1982. (Italian)
  • Roberto Scagno with M. Mincu, Mircea Eliade e l’'Italia, Milan, 1987. (Italian)
  • Mac Linscott Ricketts, Mircea Eliade. The Romanian Roots, 1907-1945, 2 vols., New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. (English)
  • Florin Ţurcanu, Mircea Eliade. Prizonierul istoriei, trans. Monica Anghel & Dragoş Dodu, Bucharest: Humanitas, 2005.
  • Christian K. Wedemeyer, Wendy Doniger, Hermeneutics, Politics, and the History of Religions: The Contested Legacies of Joachim Wach and Mircea Eliade, Oxford University Press, 2010, IA (English)
  • Moshe Idel, Mircea Eliade: de la magie la mit, trans. Maria-Magdalena Anghelescu, Iaşi: Polirom, 2014, 320 p.

Documentaries

  • Emil Cioran: Apocalipsa dupa Cioran [Apocalipse According to Cioran], dir. Gabriel Liiceanu, 1995. (in Romanian)

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