Jorge Ángel Livraga Rizzi
| Jorge Angel Livraga Rizzi | |
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| Born | September 3, 1930 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Died | October 7, 1991 Madrid, Spain |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Esotericism, Theosophy, Neoplatonism, Humanism |
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Jorge Ángel Livraga Rizzi (September 3, 1930 – October 7, 1991) was an Argentinian poet, novelist, philosopher, essayist, educator and lecturer of Italian heritage best known for having founded and directed New Acropolis, an international philosophical educational and cultural organisation. He was an academic member of the International Philo-Byzantine Academy and University (IPHBAU) and the International Burckhardt Academy (Italy), a knight of the Real Orden de San Ildefonso y San Atilano, and a recipient of the silver cross from the Société Académique Arts Sciences Lettres (France)
His works have been translated into several languages, titles in English include the novels The Alchemist and Ankor, the Last Prince of Atlantis, as well as The Spirits of Nature and Thebes, two studies on esotericism.
He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and died in Madrid, Spain.
His mother, Victoria Rizzi, and his father, Ángel Livraga, an industrial engineer, were of Italian origin whose families had emigrated to Argentina in the late 19th century; (Livraga himself would later gain Italian citizenship). Livraga's father died when he was 15, and this led to a spiritual crisis, where, via his English teacher, he eventually came into contact with the Argentine Theosophical Society in the early fifties. With his partner Ada Albrecht, he became recognized in theosophical circles as a charismatic teacher and lecturer. He was a member of the Theosophical Society from 1950 to 1962. He entered the history and history of art faculty of Buenos Aires university and later the Medical Faculty. He also cultivated poetry and, in 1951, won the Argentine National Poetry Prize with his book Lotuses.
At some point, he founded the magazine Estudios Teosóficos with Ada Albrecht, and founded New Acropolis, an association intended to promote Philosophy, along the lines of the classical Schools of Philosophy, such as Plato’s Academy. Livraga began to expand New Acropolis to other Latin American countries: Uruguay, Chile (in 1965), Perú, Brasil and Bolivia. Livraga's activities during this period consisted in writing the extensive course manuals which extends to seven cycles (the manuals cover such topics as psychology, eastern and western wisdom, theological symbolism, oratory, history of philosophy, comparative religions, philosophy of science, metaphysics and esthetics, human evolution, cosmic evolution, astrology, and others), as well teaching classes and giving public lectures.
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