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b.
1907 d.
1986
|
1936 |
Between
July and August he
travells to London, Oxford, Berlin |
| 1940 |
He
leaves for London as a cultural attaché |
| 1941 |
From 10 February
till 1944 he is cultural advisor in Lisabon. |
| 1945 |
16 September, he
moves to Paris with Giza, his daughter. |
| 1907 |
Mircea Eliade is
born on the 9th of March in Bucharest
Romania, as the second son to captain Gheorghe
Eliade and to Ioana Eliade.
Initially, his father's name was Ieremia,
and he originated from Tecuci. |
1948 |
He
starts his collaboration with the magazine Critique,
under the command of Georges Bataille. |
| 1949 |
15
July Mircea Eliade makes a trip to Italy, where
he writes 300 pages of his novel Forêt Interdite. |
| 1914 |
He
moves to Bucharest, where he attends the school in Mântuleasa
street. |
1950 |
He takes part in The International Congress
of the History of Religions from Amsterdam. |
| 1917 |
He is admited to Spiru Haret
high school. |
| 1921 |
12 May, Mircea Eliade
makes his debut with The Enemy of the Silk Worm.
It was signed Eliade Gh. MIrcea. |
1952 |
In
May he travells to Italy again. |
| 1956 |
On
1 October he goes to Chicago. |
| 1923 |
He
learns Italian so as to read Papini in the original and
English so as to read Frazer. He starts learning Hebrew
and Persian. |
1957 |
He
moves to Chicago as a professor of history of religions
at the University of Chicago. |
| 1925 |
Eliade
is a student in philosophy at the Faculty of Letters and
Philosophy from Bucharest. |
1960 |
In
September Mircea Eliade takes part in
The Congress of the History of Religions from Marburg. |
| 1927 |
His
first trip to Italy. He visits Papini, who had a great
influence on the young Eliade. |
1964 |
He
is given the title Sewele L. Avery Distinguished
Service Professor. |
| 1928 |
In
October he graduates the University of
Bucharest with a paper on Campanella. |
1966 |
11 May he becomes a member
of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
| 1928 |
20 November he leaves for
India. |
| 1928 |
25
November - 5 December he makes a trip to Egypt.
On 26 December he arrives to Calcutta. |
1970 |
August
- September he travells to Sweden and Norway and
takes part in the Congress of the History of Religions. |
| 1930 |
From
January till September
he lives in Calcutta where he meets Maitreyi. |
1977 |
Mircea
Eliade is given the Bordin award by the
French Academy. |
| 1931 |
December,
he leaves India and returns to Romania. |
1985 |
He
becomes Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of
Washington. |
| 1933 |
Mircea
Eliade gets his PhD in philosophy with The Compared
History of the Yoga Techniques. |
1986 |
22
April, at 9 am, Mircea Eliade dies and he is
incinerated the next day in Capela Rockfeller from Hyde
Park. |
