illuminist

It is named after the 19th century Romanian illuminist and ethnologist Alecu Russo.

His Treaty on Predestination (Paris, 1601), brought the charge of being an illuminist, if not a quietist, and the attention of the Spanish Inquisition.

Being an atheist, Foscolo did not share the view of e.g. fellow poet Ippolito Pindemonte, who defended the Christian cult as opposed to the new "illuminist" ideas brought on by the French regime.

HENRY KISSINGER has been an insider so long - grave talking head, wise op-ed-page illuminist, summer houseguest of the late Katharine Graham - that we forget he was once an outsider.

Earlier, in 1787, the leading Bavarian illuminist and freemason, Johann Joachim Christoph Bode, is said to have converted the German-speaking Bonneville to a faith that combined esoteric symbolism with radical ideas of popular sovereignty bordering on direct democracy.

According to Charles Malato, it was said of Meunier that he was "...the most remarkable type of revolutionary illuminist, an ascetic and a visionary, as passionate for the search for the ideal society as Saint-Just, and as merciless as seeking his way towards it."