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Hans Thomas Hakl | |
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Born | |
Other names | H. T. Hansen |
Education | Doctor of Law degree at Graz University (1970) |
Occupation(s) | Austrian publisher, essayist and translator |
Hans Thomas Hakl (born 27 February 1947) is an Austrian publisher, essayist and translator. He has used the signature H. T. Hakl, H.T.H., or the pseudonym H. T. Hansen.
Hakl earned a Doctor of Law degree at 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. It had 14 daughter companies in 13 different countries and dealt with the Far East. He also founded the publishing house Ansata-Verlag, which specialized in studies on esotericism, based first in Schwarzenburg and then in Interlaken (Switzerland).[ citation needed ] In 1996, he created an academic journal focused on 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 Eranos series of colloquia initiated by 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.[ citation needed ] Hakl is the founder of the Octagon library, a private European library specializing in the history of religion and esotericism. [4] [ independent source needed ]