Robert Eisler was an Austrian Jewish art historian and Biblical scholar. He was a follower of the psychology of Carl Jung. His writings cover a great range of topics, from cosmic kingship and astrology to werewolves. He advanced controversial theses on Jesus. These have for the most part been rejected by other scholars, though some have agreed with or developed them. One is about the concept of a political, rebellious and eschatological Jew as Jesus, in relation to the Zealot movement.

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  • Robert Eisler was an Austrian Jewish art historian and Biblical scholar. He was a follower of the psychology of Carl Jung. His writings cover a great range of topics, from cosmic kingship and astrology to werewolves. He advanced controversial theses on Jesus. These have for the most part been rejected by other scholars, though some have agreed with or developed them. One is about the concept of a political, rebellious and eschatological Jew as Jesus, in relation to the Zealot movement. In this he is the company of Joel Carmichael, H. Rodrigues and Maurice Fluegel, and Hugh J. Schonfield. In arguing for this position he used the work of Flavius Josephus in Slavonic manuscripts (the authenticity of which has been questioned). On the Messiah he discussed the afikoman in 1925, with ideas taken up much later. He made much of the Hebrew background of John the Baptist. He was described mockingly by Gershom Scholem as 'an astonishing figure in the world of scholarship'. Another critic was Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough. Married to Lili von Pausinger, he was the son-in-law of Austrian painter Franz von Pausinger (1839-1915). His wife's sister Elisabeth translated the classic children's book Heidi into English and was married to the American writer Charles Wharton Stork (1881-1971). He had a position at the Austrian Historical Institute at the Vienna University. From 1925-31 he served as Assistant Director of the League of Nations Universities Interrelation Office in Paris. At that time he wrote on economics. He survived concentration camps (Dachau and Buchenwald) before the outbreak of World War II, moving to the United Kingdom, where he died.
  • Robert Eisler war ein österreichischer Kulturhistoriker jüdischer Herkunft. Eisler studierte in Wien, Rom und Athen, bereiste zu Studienzwecken den Vorderen Orient und hielt Gastvorlesungen an verschiedenen europäischen Universitäten. Im Ersten Weltkrieg war er Offizier in einem österreichischen Infanterieregiment, 1925 wurde er stellvertretender Sekretariatschef des Völkerbundinstituts für geistige Zusammenarbeit in Paris, 1927/28 hatte er eine Gastprofessur an der Sorbonne inne. 1938 wurde er in Dachau und Buchenwald inhaftiert, im selben Jahr gelang ihm die Emigration nach Großbritannien, wo er an der Universität Oxford eine Lektorenstelle annahm. Eisler verfasste materialreiche Darstellungen zur Kunst-, Wirtschafts- und vergleichenden Religionsgeschichte, deren wissenschaftlicher Wert bestritten wird, die aber viele Anregungen enthalten.
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  • Robert Eisler was an Austrian Jewish art historian and Biblical scholar. He was a follower of the psychology of Carl Jung. His writings cover a great range of topics, from cosmic kingship and astrology to werewolves. He advanced controversial theses on Jesus. These have for the most part been rejected by other scholars, though some have agreed with or developed them. One is about the concept of a political, rebellious and eschatological Jew as Jesus, in relation to the Zealot movement.
  • Robert Eisler war ein österreichischer Kulturhistoriker jüdischer Herkunft. Eisler studierte in Wien, Rom und Athen, bereiste zu Studienzwecken den Vorderen Orient und hielt Gastvorlesungen an verschiedenen europäischen Universitäten. Im Ersten Weltkrieg war er Offizier in einem österreichischen Infanterieregiment, 1925 wurde er stellvertretender Sekretariatschef des Völkerbundinstituts für geistige Zusammenarbeit in Paris, 1927/28 hatte er eine Gastprofessur an der Sorbonne inne.
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