Oişteanu is the brother of American poet Valery Oişteanu.īorn into a Jewish family in Bucharest, Andrei Oişteanu graduated from the Polytechnic University, and took a course in Oriental Studies at the University of Bucharest. After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, he also became noted for his articles and essays on the Holocaust in Romania. The president of the Romanian Association for the History of Religions ( RAHR), he received the national order " Steaua României" on September 20, 2006. Specialized in the history of mentalities and the investigation of rituals and magic, he is, together with Ioan Petru Culianu, one of Mircea Eliade's leading disciples in Romania. Noted for his work on the history of religions, theology, Jewish studies, and the history of antisemitism, he is a researcher at the National Museum of Romanian Literature in Bucharest, a member of the Romanian Academy's Folklore and Ethnology Commission, and a member of the International Union of Ethnological and Anthropological Sciences in London. He is also a Romanian historian, ethnologist, cultural anthropologist, literary critic and novelist. Andrei Oişteanu (born September 18, 1948) He is a researcher at the Institute for History of Religions ( Institutul de Istorie a Religiilor), Romanian Academy.
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