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Nationality
  
Belgium

Grandchild
  
Jean Goblet d'Alviella

Children
  
Félix Goblet d'Alviella

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Full Name
  
Eugène Félicien Albert

Born
  
10 August 1846 (
1846-08-10
)
Ixelles, Belgium

Occupation
  
politician, lawyer, academic

Died
  
9 September 1925, Ixelles, Belgium

Books
  
The Migration of Symbols

People also search for
  
Félix Goblet d'Alviella

Great grandchildren
  
Michael Goblet d'Alviella, Richard Goblet d'Alviella, Christine Goblet d'Alviella

Eugène Félicien Albert, Count Goblet d'Alviella (10 August 1846 – 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). He was the father of Félix Goblet d'Alviella, a lawyer and director of the Revue de Belgique.

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He became famous for this book The Migration of Symbols, 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.

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.
  • Eulisinia : De quelques problèmes relatifs aux Mystères d’Eulisis (1903)

    • Honours

  • 1919 : Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Crown.

    • References

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