1907 - 1986
Mircea Eliade (Romanian: [ˈmirtʃe̯a eliˈade]; March 13 [O.S. February 28] 1907 – April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. One of the most influential scholars of religion of the 20th century and interpreter of religious experience, he established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day. His theory that hierophanies form the basis of religion, splitting the human experience of reality into sacred and profane space and time, has proved influential. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mircea Eliade has received more than 1,708,217 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Mircea Eliade is the 20th most popular historian (down from 16th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Romania (down from 12th in 2019) and the most popular Romanian Historian.
Mircea Eliade is most famous for his book "The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion" which argues that religion is a human response to the experience of the sacred.
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Among historians, Mircea Eliade ranks 20 out of 339. Before him are Manetho, Hecataeus of Miletus, Procopius, Cassius Dio, Arnold J. Toynbee, and Johann Joachim Winckelmann. After him are Fernand Braudel, Leopold von Ranke, Johan Huizinga, Saxo Grammaticus, Jacob Burckhardt, and Bede.
201 BC - Present
HPI: 72.06
Rank: 14
550 BC - 476 BC
HPI: 71.56
Rank: 15
500 - 560
HPI: 71.55
Rank: 16
155 - 235
HPI: 71.41
Rank: 17
1889 - 1975
HPI: 71.26
Rank: 18
1717 - 1768
HPI: 71.11
Rank: 19
1907 - 1986
HPI: 71.05
Rank: 20
1902 - 1985
HPI: 70.47
Rank: 21
1795 - 1886
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 22
1872 - 1945
HPI: 70.09
Rank: 23
1150 - 1220
HPI: 69.89
Rank: 24
1818 - 1897
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 25
672 - 735
HPI: 69.15
Rank: 26
Among people born in 1907, Mircea Eliade ranks 8. Before him are Astrid Lindgren, Claus von Stauffenberg, Katharine Hepburn, Oscar Niemeyer, John Wayne, and Edwin McMillan. After him are Hergé, Laurence Olivier, Rachel Carson, Alberto Moravia, Yakov Dzhugashvili, and Baldur von Schirach. Among people deceased in 1986, Mircea Eliade ranks 10. Before him are Olof Palme, Vyacheslav Molotov, Andrei Tarkovsky, Cary Grant, Frank Herbert, and Jiddu Krishnamurti. After him are Tenzing Norgay, Joseph Beuys, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jean Genet, Harold Macmillan, and Urho Kekkonen.
1907 - 2002
HPI: 78.36
Rank: 2
1907 - 1944
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 3
1907 - 2003
HPI: 74.73
Rank: 4
1907 - 2012
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 5
1907 - 1979
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 6
1907 - 1991
HPI: 71.13
Rank: 7
1907 - 1986
HPI: 71.05
Rank: 8
1907 - 1983
HPI: 70.30
Rank: 9
1907 - 1989
HPI: 69.98
Rank: 10
1907 - 1964
HPI: 69.86
Rank: 11
1907 - 1990
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 12
1907 - 1943
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 13
1907 - 1974
HPI: 68.56
Rank: 14
1927 - 1986
HPI: 77.24
Rank: 4
1890 - 1986
HPI: 76.27
Rank: 5
1932 - 1986
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 6
1904 - 1986
HPI: 73.56
Rank: 7
1920 - 1986
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 8
1895 - 1986
HPI: 71.26
Rank: 9
1907 - 1986
HPI: 71.05
Rank: 10
1914 - 1986
HPI: 70.53
Rank: 11
1921 - 1986
HPI: 69.49
Rank: 12
1887 - 1986
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 13
1910 - 1986
HPI: 68.70
Rank: 14
1894 - 1986
HPI: 68.34
Rank: 15
1900 - 1986
HPI: 67.61
Rank: 16
Among people born in Romania, Mircea Eliade ranks 14 out of 665. Before him are Emil Cioran (1911), Tristan Tzara (1896), Elena Ceaușescu (1916), Michael I of Romania (1921), Ion Antonescu (1882), and Béla IV of Hungary (1206). After him are Carol II of Romania (1893), Vlad II Dracul (1395), Johnny Weissmuller (1904), Béla Kun (1886), Paul Celan (1920), and Constantin Brâncuși (1876).
1911 - 1995
HPI: 72.73
Rank: 8
1896 - 1963
HPI: 72.59
Rank: 9
1916 - 1989
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 10
1921 - 2017
HPI: 71.78
Rank: 11
1882 - 1946
HPI: 71.56
Rank: 12
1206 - 1270
HPI: 71.25
Rank: 13
1907 - 1986
HPI: 71.05
Rank: 14
1893 - 1953
HPI: 70.51
Rank: 15
1395 - 1447
HPI: 70.40
Rank: 16
1904 - 1984
HPI: 70.19
Rank: 17
1886 - 1938
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 18
1920 - 1970
HPI: 69.43
Rank: 19
1876 - 1957
HPI: 69.36
Rank: 20
Among historians born in Romania, Mircea Eliade ranks 1. After him are Arnold Hauser (1892), Edward Luttwak (1942), and Neagu Djuvara (1916).
1907 - 1986
HPI: 71.05
Rank: 1
1892 - 1978
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 2
1942 - Present
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 3
1916 - 2018
HPI: 46.98
Rank: 4