Antoine Faivre

Antoine Faivre
Born5 June 1934
Died19 December 2021(2021-12-19) (aged 87)
NationalityFrench
Academic work
DisciplineWestern 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]

  1. ^ a b c Hanegraaff, Wouter J.; Brach, Jean-Pierre; Pasi, Marco (22 June 2022). "Antoine Faivre (1934–2021): The Insider as Outsider". Aries. 22 (2): 167–204. doi:10.1163/15700593-02202017. ISSN 1567-9896.
  2. ^ McCalla, Arthur (October 2001). "Antoine Faivre and the Study of Esotericism". Religion. 31 (4): 435–450. doi:10.1006/reli.2001.0364. ISSN 0048-721X.