In a city with a thick portfolio of unsolved cases, the May 21, 1991, murder of the religion professor Ioan Culianu stands out as one of Chicago’s strangest.
The fact that the murder took place at the University of Chicago’s divinity school underlines the mystery.
Much of the intrigue centers around Eliade, an admired professor who had come to the U.S. after World War II.
Suggestions of a youthful dalliance with Romanian fascism surfaced occasionally, but Eliade was known at the university as a generous colleague and teacher.
A chair was named for him in the divinity school.
Persons:
Ioan Culianu, —, Mircea Eliade —, Eliade, Saul Bellow
Organizations:
University of
Locations:
Romanian, Romania