The Unpublished Correspondence between Mircea Eliade and Stig Wikander (1948-1977)
The Unpublished Correspondence between Mircea Eliade and Stig Wikander (1948-1977)

Summary/Abstract: This fourth couple of letters exchanged between Eliade and Wikander covers the period of 1961-1977. It is the last part of the entire corpus of letter which counts a total of 74 letters (to which should be added one letter of Gunnel Wikander sent to Eliade on behalf of her husband). Besides different views concerning their personal circumstances of life, these letters bring testimony for a great variety of scholarly projects, some accomplished but others not. Among these, one should mention the series of Haskell Lectures which Stig Wikander held at Chicago, at Eliade’s invitation (1967, Fall). Unfortunately, Wikander did not manage to publish these lectures. In addition to this last body of Eliade-Wikander epistolary, the editors decided to publish a series of some other yet unpublished letters received by Eliade and Wikander, respectively. Thus, the reader can find in the two Addendum letters signed by Edmund von Lippmann, George Sarton, Rudolf Otto, Theodor Scherbatsky, Pierre-Maxime Schuhl, Louis Renou, Julius Evola and Geo Widengren (addressed to Eliade) or by Harold W. Bailey, Georges Dumézil, Lucien Gerschel, Joseph Kitagawa and Marijan Molé (addressed to Wikander).

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