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Flourished 1400 BCE? - 1201 BCE
Subjects Of Study Phoenicia • culture • religion
Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliade
Romanian religious historian and author
Max Müller
Max Müller
German scholar
John Cooper
John M. Cooper
American anthropologist
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Helen Lynd
American sociologist
Robert Lynd
American sociologist
Poet John Milton
John Milton
English poet
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
Austrian psychoanalyst
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
Émile Durkheim
Émile Durkheim
French social scientist
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson
French philosopher
Ernest Renan
French scholar
Rudolf Otto
Rudolf Otto
German philosopher and theologian
portrait of Germaine de Staël
Germaine de Staël
French-Swiss author
Joseph Campbell.
Joseph Campbell
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Franz Boas
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
Powell, John Wesley
John Wesley Powell
American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist
Ahura Mazdā
Zarathushtra
Iranian prophet