Eugène Goblet d'Alviella
Eugene Goblet d'Alviella
Born	Eugène Félicien Albert (1846-08-10)10 August 1846 Ixelles,Belgium
Died	9 September 1925(1925-09-09) (aged 79) Ixelles, Belgium
Occupation(s)	politician, lawyer, academic

Eugène Félicien Albert, Count Goblet d'Alviella (10 August 1846 – 9 September 1925) was a lawyer, liberal senator ofBelgium and aProfessor of the history of religions and rector of theUniversite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).^[1] He was the father ofFélix Goblet d'Alviella, a lawyer and director of theRevue de Belgique.

He became famous for this bookThe Migration of Symbols,^[2] which is one of the foundations of religiousarcheology. He was afreemason, a member of the lodgeLes Amis Philanthropes (initiated in 1870), Grand Master of theGrand Orient of Belgium (1884), andGrand Commander of theSupreme Council in 1900.

• The Contemporary Evolution of Religious Thought in England (1885)
• Lectures on the origin and growth of the Conception of God as Illustrated by anthropology and history (1892),being the Hibbert lectures delivered by Eugene at Balliol College, Oxford in 1891, although he was refused the use of a room by the college authority for his nonconformist and nonsectarian views on Christian religion and other analogous matters.
• The Migration of Symbols (1894)
• Eleusinia : De quelques problèmes relatifs aux Mystères d’Eleusis (1903)

• 1919 : Knight Grand Cross in theOrder of the Crown.^[3]

• Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella

• Mausoleum Eugene Goblet d'Alviella

• 1846 births
• 1925 deaths
• People from Ixelles
• Counts Goblet d'Alviella
• Liberal Party (Belgium) politicians
• Belgian historians

• Use dmy dates from October 2023
• Articles with hCards
• Pages using infobox person with deprecated parameters