Robert Eisler
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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. 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, Martin Buber, and Walter Benjamin.
Works
- Studien zur Werttheorie (1902) The Theory Of Values
- Die Legende vom heiligen Karantanerherzog Domitianus, Mitteilungen des Instituts für österreichische Geschichtsforschung 28, Innsbruck 1907
- Die illuminierten Handschriften in Kärnten (1907)
- Weltenmantel und Himmelszelt, two volumes(1910)
- Die Kenitischen Weihinschriften Der Hyksoszeit (1919)
- Orpheus the Fisher: Comparative Studies in Orphic and Christian Cult Symbolism (1921)
- Das Geld (1924)
- Orphisch-Dionysische Mysteriengedanken in der christlichen Antike (1925)
- Iesous Basileus ou Basileusas, two volumes (1929/30)
- The Messiah Jesus and John the Baptist (1931)
- This Money Maze (1931)
- Stable Money (1932)
- Monetary Theory And Monetary Policy (1934)
- Zur Kritik der Psychologistischen Konjunktur-Theorie (1935)
- Das Rätzel des Vierten Evangeliums (1936) as The Enigma of the Fourth Gospel (1938)
- Flavius Josephus Studien (1938)
- The Royal Art of Astrology (London 1946)
- Man Into Wolf: An Anthropological Interpretation of Sadism, Masochism and Lycanthropy (1948)
- Una Tavoletta di Biccherna Nuovamente Scoperta (1950)
- Comparative Studies In Ancient Cosmology (never published)
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Josephus on Jesus, Josephus, Werewolf, Dacians, Race and appearance of Jesus, List of books about Jesus, University of Muri, Wolves in folklore, religion and mythology, S. G. F. Brandon, Man into Wolf, Slavonic Josephus, Millstatt Abbey, The Christ Myth, Gymnasium Wasagasse, New Testament people named John, Domitian of Carantania, Jewish nose, List of ancient Daco-Thracian peoples and tribes, Josephines
