Eugène Félicien Albert, Count Goblet d'Alviella (10 August 1846 – 9 September 1925) was a lawyer, liberal senator of
Belgium
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and a ''Professor of the history of religions'' and rector of the
Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). 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'', which is one of the foundations of religious
archeology
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. He was a
freemason
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, a member of the lodge ''Les Amis Philanthropes'' (initiated in 1870), Grand Master of the
Grand Orient of Belgium
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History
The Grand Orient of Belgium was founded in 1833, three y ...
(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),being the Hibbert lectures delivered by Eugene at Balliol College, Oxford in 1891, although he was refused the use of a room by the college authority for his nonconformist and nonsectarian views on Christian religion and other analogous matters.
* The Migration of Symbols (1894)
* Eleusinia : De quelques problèmes relatifs aux Mystères d’Eleusis (1903)
Honours
* 1919 : Knight Grand Cross in the
Order of the Crown.
[RD of 15 November 1919]
See also
*
Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella
References
External links
Mausoleum Eugene Goblet d'Alviella
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1846 births
1925 deaths
People from Ixelles
Eugene
Liberal Party (Belgium) politicians
Belgian historians