# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ioan-p-culianu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:05:01.382Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ioan-p-culianu"
name: "Ioan P. Culianu"
slug: "ioan-p-culianu"
description: "Ioan Petru Culianu or Couliano 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."
tagline: "Romanian academic (1950-1991)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/15/IoanPetruCulianuImage.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950-01-05"
deathDate: "1991-05-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.02297333333333
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump