page_title: Geo Widengren
hierarchical_section_title: Geo Widengren
caption_attribution_description: English: Geo Widengren during the honorary doctorate ceremony, Amsterdam University, 1962
context_page_description: Geo Widengren was a Swedish historian of religions, professor of history of religions at Uppsala University, orientalist and Iranist.
  Widengren wrote a series of works on Iranian religions, Islam, Judaism, Gnosticism, etc. His most popular works include Die Religion Irans, published in 1965.
  Widengren has been considered "one of the most famous historians of religions of the twentieth century".
context_section_description: Geo Widengren (24 April 1907 – 28 January 1996) was a Swedish historian of religions, professor of history of religions at Uppsala University, orientalist and Iranist.
  Widengren wrote a series of works on Iranian religions (in particular Manicheism and Zoroastrism), Islam, Judaism, Gnosticism, etc. His most popular works include Die Religion Irans, published in 1965 (Les Religions de l'Iran, 1968).
  Widengren has been considered "one of the most famous historians of religions of the twentieth century".
caption: Widengren (1962)
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