Ioan P. Culianu
Romanian academic (1950-1991)
Ioan Petru Culianu (5 January 1950 – 21 May 1991) was a Romanian historian of religion, culture, ideas, philosopher, political essayist, poet, mystic and short story writer.
He was 41 when he was shot in the head in the men's room in his University, Divine School where he was teaching on May 21 1991. At times he preached against communism and its system of brainwashing youth. It is alleged that he was killed on the orders of outgoing Romanian Communist Party leaders.
Other websites
change- Biography - The life and death of Romanian mystic, The Forces of Darkness- professor Ioan Culianu
- Culianu's works
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