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Henry Steel Olcott ['ɔlkət] (* 2. August 1832 in Orange (New Jersey), USA; † 17. Februar 1907 in Adyar ( Madras ), Indien) war ein US-amerikanischer Theosoph, einer der Gründer und erster Präsident der Theosophischen Gesellschaft. Später konvertierte er zum Buddhismus.
Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (2 August 1832 – 17 February 1907) was an American military officer, journalist, lawyer, Freemason (member of Huguenot Lodge #448, now #46) and the co-founder and first president of the Theosophical Society. Olcott was the first well-known American of European ancestry to make a formal conversion to ...
Henry Steel Olcott (born August 2, 1832, Orange, New Jersey, U.S.—died February 17, 1907, Adyar, Madras [now Chennai], India) was an American author, attorney, philosopher, and cofounder of the Theosophical Society, a religious sect incorporating aspects of Buddhism, Brahmanism, and Christian esotericism. Olcott was agricultural editor of the ...
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Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (1832-1907), founder and first president of the Theosophical Society, is well-known as the first prominent person of Western descent to make a formal conversion to Buddhism. His subsequent actions as president of the Theosophical Society helped Buddhism into a new renaissance.
Henry Steel Olcott (1832–1907), President-Founder of the Theosophical Society, was born on 2 August 1832 at Orange, New Jersey. Olcott came from an old English Puritan family that had been settled for many generations in the United States.
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28. Nov. 2020 · Colonel Henry Steel Olcott was a larger-than-life figure who contributed as much as any Sri Lankan to resurrect the educational and cultural bases of the people in order to strengthen and extend the achievements of the Buddhist revival of the 19th century into the future, and onward to independence from colonial rule.
