Antoine Faivre is a prominent French scholar of esoterism He holds a chair in the École Pratique des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne, University Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Haute-Normandie, director of the "Cahiers del Hermétisme" and of "Bibliothèque de l'hermétisme", and with Wouter Hanegraaff and Roland Edighoffer, the editor of the journal "Aries". Wikipedia
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