Ioan Petru Culianu

Ioan Petru Culianu or Couliano (5 January 1950 – 21 May 1991) was a Romanian historian of religion, culture, and ideas, a philosopher and political essayist, and a short story writer. He served as professor of the history of religions at the University of Chicago from 1988 to his death, and had previously taught the history of Romanian culture at the University of Groningen.

Works

• Éros et Magie à la Renaissance. 1484, Paris: Flammarion, 1984. (in French)
  • Eros and Magic in the Renaissance, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. (in English) [1]
  • Eros e magia nel Rinascimento: La congiunzione astrologica del 1484, Milano: Il Saggiatore/ A. Mondadori, 1987. (in Italian)
  • Eros y magia en el Renacimiento. 1484, Madrid: Ediciones Siruela, 1999.
  • Eros şi magie în Renaştere. 1484, Bucharest: Nemira, 1994, 2nd ed., 1999; 3rd ed., Iaşi: Polirom, 2003. (in Romanian)
  • Eros und Magie in der Renaissance, Insel Verlag, 2001 [2]. (in German)

• Gnosticismo e pensiero moderno: Hans Jonas, Rome: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 1985 [after his thesis]. (in Italian)
  • Gnosticism şi gîndire modernă: Hans Jonas, trans. Maria-Magdalena Anghelescu & Şerban Anghelescu, Iaşi: Polirom, 2006 [3]. (in Romanian)

• Mircea Eliade, Assisi: Cittadella Editrice, 1978; 2nd ed., Rome: Settimo Sigillo, 2008. (in Italian)
  • Mircea Eliade, Bucharest: Nemira, 1995, 2nd ed., 1998; 3rd ed., Iaşi: Polirom, 2004. (in Romanian)

• The Tree of Gnosis: Gnostic Mythology from Early Christianity to Modern Nihilism, San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1992;
  • Arborele gnozei. Mitologia gnostică de la creştinismul timpuriu la nihilismul modern, Bucharest: Nemira, 1999; 2nd ed., 2005. (in Romanian) [4]

• Studii româneşti, vol. I, "Fantasmele nihilismului. Secretul Doctorului Eliade", Bucharest: Nemira, 2000; 2nd ed., Iaşi: Polirom, 2006. (in Romanian) [5]

• Studii româneşti, vol. II, "Soarele şi Luna. Otrăvurile admiraţiei", Iaşi: Polirom, 2009. (in Romanian)

• Jocurile minţii. Istoria ideilor, teoria culturii, epistemologie, trans. Mona Antohi, Sorin Antohi, Claudia Dumitriu, Dan Petrescu..., Iaşi: Polirom, 2002. (in Romanian)

• Experiences del extasis, Barcelona: Paidos Orientalia, 1994.
  • Experienţe ale extazului, Bucharest, Nemira, 1997; 2nd ed., Iaşi: Polirom, 2004 [6].

• Păcatul împotriva spiritului, Nemira, Bucharest: 1999; Iaşi: Polirom, 2005.

• Iocari serio. Ştiinţa şi arta în gîndirea Renaşterii, Iaşi: Polirom, 2003.

• Cult, magie, erezii. Articole din enciclopedii ale religiilor, Iaşi: Polirom, 2003.

• Dialoguri întrerupte. Corespondenţă Mircea Eliade - Ioan Petru Culianu, Iaşi: Polirom, 2004.

Literature

• Matei Calinescu, Despre Ioan Petru Culianu si Mircea Eliade. Amintiri, lecturi, reflectii, Iasi, Polirom, 2002; 2005.
• Andrei Oişteanu, Religie, politică şi mit. Texte despre Mircea Eliade şi Ioan Petru Culianu, Polirom, Iaşi, 2007.

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioan_P._Culianu
• http://www.spiritus.ro/ROMANIA/in_memoriam_ioan_petru_culianu.htm