Frithjof Schuon
| Frithjof Schuon | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 18, 1907 Basel, Switzerland |
| Died | May 5, 1998 (aged 90) Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.. |
Frithjof Schuon (/ˈʃuːɒn/; German: [ˈfʀiːtˌjoːf ˈʃuː.ɔn]) (ʿĪsá Nūr ad-Dīn ʾAḥmad, al-Mālikī, ash-Shādhilī ad-Darqāwī al-ʿAlawī al-Maryamī; June 18, 1907 – May 5, 1998) was a German author born in Switzerland. He was a philosopher and metaphysicist inspired by the Hindu philosophy of Advaita Vedanta and the author of numerous books on religion and spirituality. He was also a poet and a painter.
The main subjects of his prose as well as his poetic compositions are metaphysical doctrine and spiritual method. Schuon was inspired by neo-Vedanta, and an exponent of the religio perennis (perennial religion) and one of the chief representatives of the Traditionalist School. In his writings, Schuon expresses his faith in an absolute principle, God, who governs the universe and to whom our souls would return after death. For Schuon the great revelations are the link between this absolute principle—God—and mankind. He wrote the main bulk of his work in French. In the later years of his life Schuon composed some volumes of poetry in his mother tongue, German. His articles in French were collected in about twenty titles in French which were later translated into English as well as many other languages.
Schuon was born in Basel, Switzerland, on June 18, 1907. His father was a native of southern Germany, while his mother came from an Alsatian family. Schuon's father was a concert violinist and the household was one in which not only music but literary and spiritual culture were present. Schuon lived in Basel and attended school there until the untimely death of his father, after which his mother returned with her two young sons to her family in nearby Mulhouse, France, where Schuon was obliged to become a French citizen. Having received his earliest training in German, he received his later education in French and thus mastered both languages early in life.
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