Florin George Călian is a Romanian historian of religion and philosophy. He is a researcher at the Institute for Ecumenical Research, Lucian Blaga University.

Educational background

Florin George Călian studied psychology, philosophy and classical languages in Bucharest. He had a MA degree in Archeology and Greek-Roman History from Bucharest University, and another MA in Medieval Studies from Central European University. He obtained his doctoral degree from Central European University, with a dissertation on Plato's ontology of numbers, under the supervision of Gabor Betegh.

Professional background

Călian had several research stays at the Departement für Philosophie of Université Fribourg (Switzerland), Trinity College (University of Oxford), Plato Center ( Trinity College Dublin), Tübinger Stift (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen), New Europe College (Bucharest), Robarts Library (Toronto), Department of Incunabula, Old and Precious Books, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Wien). Together with the philologist

Antoaneta Sabău Antoaneta Sabău (12 August 1982, Mangalia) is a Romanian classicist, translator and editor. Her main contribution are mainly in the field of medieval and translation studies. Studies Antoaneta Sabău studied classical languages at Bucharest U ...

, Florin Călian founded a school for classical and oriental languages: Dan Slușanschi School for Classical and Oriental Languages, which is under the administrative stewardship of the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu. The main languages promoted by the school are: Spoken Latin, Ancient Greek,

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and Old Slavonic. He published and lectured about platonic and neoplatonic philosophy, classical philology, religious studies, sacred spaces, etc. Călian is member of the editorial board of ''SCHOLÉ. Independent Journal of Philosophy'' and ''Review of Ecumenical Studies.'' As jurnalist he published în

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, The Armenian Weekly, Capital Cultural, etc.

Interviews

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Dan Slușanschi Dan Slușanschi (12 September 1943 – 22 July 2008) was a 20th century Romanian classicist and specialist in Indo-European linguistics who made contributions in the fields of Ancient Greek, Latin/Medieval Latin and Persian language, Persian. He is ...

Philosophy Today
(with Florin Călian
Studying classical philology
(with Antoaneta Sabău și Florin Călian)

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Educational background

Professional background

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