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Antoine Faivre | |
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Born | 5 June 1934 |
Died | 19 December 2021 | (aged 87)
Nationality | French |
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Discipline | Western esotericism |
Antoine Faivre (5 June 1934 – 19 December 2021) was a French scholar of Western esotericism. He played a major role in the founding of the discipline as a scholarly field of study,[1][2] and he was the first-ever person to be appointed to an academic chair in the discipline.[1] 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.[1]
Until his retirement, he held a chair in the École Pratique des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne, University Professor of Germanic studies at the University of Haute-Normandie, director of the Cahiers del Hermétisme and of Bibliothèque de l'hermétisme.[citation needed]