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Article: Mircea Eliade, authority on history of religions
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 23, 1986
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Mircea Eliade, 79, a world authority on the history of religions
who helped to establish the discipline in the United States as a
professor at the University of Chicago, died yesterday in Bernard
Mitchell Hospital.
Mr. Eliade wrote numerous books and articles on the discipline
and taught many scholars who founded departments of the history of
religions at other universities.
"He is the most exceptional scholar of religion of the 20th
century," said Franklin Gamwell, dean of the Divinity School of the
U. of C. "More than any other he has opened the Western mind to the
religious possibilities and the immense religious experience of the
human adventure."
Mr. Eliade, who was born in ...