# Mircea Eliade

> He split the world into sacred and profane and argued that myths don't just remember the divine - they participate in it. That framework, and his theory of eternal return, made him one of the most influential religion scholars of the 20th century. It also couldn't insulate him from the stain of his Iron Guard sympathies in 1930s Romania.

*Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago (1907-1986)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1907-03-09
- **Died:** 1986-04-22
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in Romania in 1907, Eliade became a disciple of philosopher Nae Ionescu and moved between journalism, literature, and scholarship. In the late 1930s he publicly supported the Iron Guard, a Christian fascist movement - a fact that shadowed him for decades. He served as cultural attaché to the U.K. and Portugal in the 1940s before landing at the University of Chicago, where he built his paradigms: hierophanies as the basis of religion, the division of experience into sacred and profane, and eternal return as the engine of ritual. He wrote in five languages and produced fiction across genres - novels like "Bengal Nights" (1933) and "The Forbidden Forest" (1955), novellas, and stories steeped in the fantastic. He died in 1986; four years later, Romania's Academy elected him posthumously.

## Fame
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## Topics
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