Henry and Stella Corbin Fund
The Corbin Fund bears witness to a continuous intellectual activity over more than 50 years at the heart of the development of the science of religions, philosophy (phenomenology and hermeneutics) and the establishment of Iranology.
Henry Corbin (1903-1978) was successively a librarian at the BnF from 1928 to 1954, appointed to Berlin (1936), Istanbul (1939) and Tehran (1945), a director of the chair of studies "Islamism and religions of Arabia" at the EPHE (Section of Religious Sciences) from 1954 to 1973, then a director emeritus from 1974 to 1978, a founder of the French Institute for Research in Iran (IFRI) and a director of the Department of Iranology of the Franco-Iranian Institute and the Iranian Library. He has also taught in Tehran and Paris.
Lecturer at the Eranos Circle from 1949 to 1977, first French translator of Martin Heidegger and Karl Barth, founder of the Saint John University of Jerusalem, editor and translator of the works of Shihâboddîn Yahyâ Sohravardî, Abû Ya'cub Sejestânî, Mollâ Sadrâ Shîrazî, he participated directly as editor, translator or introducer in 22 volumes of the Iranian library and his general bibliography has a little more than 300 entries, including about twenty books.
Stella Corbin was in charge of typewriting, administrative correspondence and proofreading. After Henry Corbin's death, she took it upon herself to promote his work by publishing several books that had remained in manuscript.
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The Henry Corbin Fund bears witness to a continuous intellectual activity over more than 50 years at the heart of the development of the science of religions, philosophy (phenomenology and hermeneutics) and the establishment of Iranology. The correspondence with Arkoun, Baruzi, Benveniste, Benz, Brun, Caillois, Cirillo, Durand, Eliade, Faivre, Fouchécour, Foussard, Friedrich, Olga Fröbe-Kaptyn, Gorceix, Groethuysen, Heidegger, Ivanow, Jambet, Jaspers, Jung, Jolivet, Jourdan, Kojève, Koyré, Lévi-Strauss, Lory, Massignon, Miller, Paulhan, Puech, Queneau, Ritter, de Rougemont, Ruspoli, Scholem, Shayegan, Stauffer, Tucci, Vajda, Vieillard-Baron, Wahl, to name but a few of the famous names in the collection, has undeniable historical and heritage value. Since Henry Corbin's study, bequeathed by Stella Corbin, is complete and contains his unpublished lectures, manuscripts and typescripts as well as his correspondence, it is possible to reconstruct the origin of his ideas and to understand and document his choices.
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