Robert Eisler
Robert Eisler (27 April 1882 – 17 December 1949) was an
Austrian Jewish polymath who wrote about the topics of
mythology,
comparative religion,
the Gospels,
monetary policy,
art history,
history of science,
psychoanalysis,
politics,
astrology,
history of currency, and
value theory. He lectured at the
Sorbonne and
Oxford, served briefly on the
International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation in
Paris after
World War I, and spent fifteen months imprisoned in
Dachau and
Buchenwald, where he developed heart disease. He is best remembered today for advancing a new picture of the
historical Jesus based on his interpretation of the
Slavonic Josephus manuscript tradition, proposing a dual currency system to control
inflation, and arguing for a prehistoric derivation of human violence in ''
Man into Wolf: An Anthropological Interpretation of Sadism, Masochism, and Lycanthropy.'' His life and work intersected with those of
Sigmund Freud,
Carl Jung,
Alois Riegl,
Gilbert Murray,
Karl Popper,
Hugo von Hofmannsthal,
G. R. S. Mead,
Aby Warburg,
Fritz Saxl,
Gershom Scholem,
Oskar Goldberg,
Martin Buber, and
Walter Benjamin.
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