Antoine Faivre

Who is Antoine Faivre?

Antoine Faivre is a prominent French scholar of Western esotericism. Until his retirement, he held 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 is with Wouter Hanegraaff and Roland Edighoffer, the editor of the journal Aries.

Faivre was the first to define Western esotericism as a field of interdisciplinary academic study.

He was a founding member, and currently an honorary member, of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism.