Hans Thomas Hakl

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Hans Thomas Hakl (born 27 February 1947 in Graz, Austria) is an Austrian publisher, essayist and translator. He has used the signatures H. T. Hakl, H.T.H., or the pseudonym H. T. Hansen.

Biography

Hakl earned a

Graz University in 1970. He founded an international trading company named HHS Handels AG (HHS Trading Company), based first in Zürich and then in Schwerzenbach, which had 14 daughter companies in 13 different countries, dealing in particular with the Far East, as well as the publishing house Ansata-Verlag, specialised in studies on esotericism, based first in Schwarzenburg and then in Interlaken (Switzerland).[citation needed] In 1996, he created the academic journal devoted to the study of esotericism Gnostika,[1]
of which he remains co-editor to this date.

Hakl has contributed material on matters related to esotericism to several international dictionaries and journals, such as Politica Hermetica, where he publishes book reviews. He has published a book on the

Carl Gustav Jung and attended by names such as Mircea Eliade and several specialists of western esotericism and religious studies.[2] An English translation by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke of his book Unknown Sources: National Socialism and the Occult was published in 2000.[3] He is the author of German translations of the works of Julius Evola, of whom he is an internationally recognized specialist.[citation needed] Hakl is the founder of the Octagon library, a private European library specializing in the history of religion and esotericism.[4][third-party source needed
]

Publications

Works

Book chapters and articles

Articles in dictionaries and encyclopaedias

  • "Karlfried Graf Dürckheim", in: Wouter J. Hanegraaff: Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism. Vol. I. Brill, Leiden 2005, pp. 323–325.
  • "Giulio Evola", in: Wouter J. Hanegraaff: Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism. Vol. I. Brill, Leiden 2005, pp. 345–350.
  • "Fraternitas Saturni", in: Wouter J. Hanegraaff: Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism. Vol. I. Brill, Leiden 2005, pp. 379–382.
  • "Max Heindel", in: Wouter J. Hanegraaff: Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism. Vol. I. Brill, Leiden 2005, pp. 462–464.
  • "Sexuality: Sexual Rites in Europe (based on Ioan Petru Culianu)", in: Lindsay Jones (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Religion. 2a ed., Macmillan, New York 2005, pp. 8247–8254.
  • "Julius Evola" In: Lindsay Jones (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Religion. 2a ed., Macmillan, New York 2005, pp. 2904–2907.

Translations

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ Gnostika.
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  4. ^ "Kurzinformation". hthakls Webseite! (in German). Retrieved 2022-10-08.

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