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Antoine Faivre
French historian (1934-2021) · France · On the map · Writers · Died at 87
Antoine Faivre was a French scholar of Western esotericism. He played a major role in the founding of the discipline as a scholarly field of study, and he was the first-ever person to be appointed to an academic chair in the discipline.
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Together with Roland Edighoffer he founded the predecessor to the journal Aries in 1983, which in 2001 was relaunched with Wouter Hanegraaff as its editor.
Country
France
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1934 to 2021 · aged 87
