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Ioan Culianu was shot dead in May 1991 in a restroom at the University of Chicago Divinity School

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Historian of religion Ioan Culianu, successor to Mircea Eliade at Chicago, was shot and killed in May 1991 in a restroom at the University of Chicago Divinity School. The killer has never been found.

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documentsnybooks.comNYRB review: killed May 21, 1991, in a department restroom stall; no killer identified.

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Jeffrey Kripal - disclosure as apocalypse (American Alchemy, 2026)asserts00:57:53

Claim

Historian of religion Ioan Culianu, successor to Mircea Eliade at Chicago, was shot and killed in May 1991 in a restroom at the University of Chicago Divinity School. The killer has never been found.