Ioan Culianu, born in Iaşi, Romania, in 1950. Ph.D. from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan. Associate Professor of Gnosticism and Mythology at the University of Groningen. († 1991)
Fellow (1 September 1986 – 31 July 1987)
The research was carried out at NIAS according to the initial plan and that is the definitive version of a book on the history of Western dualistic trends, including the modern discussion of the term ‘gnosis’ and the relation of the latter to nihilism.