- Eugene Goblet d'Alviella
Eugène Félicien Albert, Count Goblet d'Alviella (
Brussels ,10 August ,1846 -Elsene ,9 September ,1925 ) was a lawyer, liberal senator ofBelgium and a "Professor of the history of religions" and rector of theUniversite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) [Kreglinger, R., Le Comte Eugène Goblet d'Alviella, in : Le Flambeau, jg. 8, nr. 12, dec. 1925, p. 437-444] . He was the father ofFélix Goblet d'Alviella , a lawyer and director of the "Revue de Belgique".He became famous for this book "The Migration of Symbols" [Symbols: Their Migration and Universality, Count Eugene Goblet d'Alviella, Dover Publications] , which is one of the foundations of religious
archeology . He was afreemason , a member of the lodge "Les Amis Philanthropes" (initiated in 1870), Grand Master of theGrand Orient of Belgium (1884), and "Grand Commander" of the "Supreme Council" in 1900.Publications
* The Contemporary Evolution of Religious Thought in England (1885)
* Lectures on the origin and growth of the Conception of God as Illustrated by anthropology and history (1892)
* Eulisinia : De quelques problèmes relatifs aux Mystères d’Eulisis (1903)References
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Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella External links
* [http://www.patrimoine-stephanois.be/patrimoines/pmonumental/le_mausolee_goblet.htm Mausoleum Eugene Goblet d'Alviella]
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