Eugene Goblet d'Alviella

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Eugène Félicien Albert, Count Goblet d'Alviella (Brussels, 10 August 1846-Elsene, 9 September 1925) was a lawyer, liberal senator of Belgium and a Professor of the history of religions and rector of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)[1]. He was the father of Félix Goblet d'Alviella, a lawyer and director of the Revue de Belgique.

He became famous for this book The Migration of Symbols [2], which is one of the foundations of religious archeology. He was a freemason, a member of the lodge Les Amis Philanthropes (initiated in 1870), Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Belgium (1884), and Grand Commander of the Supreme Council in 1900.

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  • 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)

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  1. ^ Kreglinger, R., Le Comte Eugène Goblet d'Alviella, in : Le Flambeau, jg. 8, nr. 12, dec. 1925, p. 437-444
  2. ^ Symbols: Their Migration and Universality, Count Eugene Goblet d'Alviella, Dover Publications

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