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Georgi Ivanovitch
Gurdjieff was born c. 1866 in Armenia of a Greek father and an Armenian
mother. In his youth he studied science, medicine and the ministry but found
that these disciplines could not answer his questions about the essential
nature of humanity and our possibilities. He embarked on a search for ancient
wisdom that took him to remote regions of the Middle East, Africa and Central
Asia. He reappeared in Russia c. 1912 with a distinctive, internally consistent
teaching rooted in Asian and Western traditions.
During the Bolshevik Revolution, he found his way to Western Europe with a group of his students. He eventually settled near Paris and established the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man. He continued to teach in Paris and New York until his death in 1949. Following his death, a core group of pupils, under the direction of Mme. Jeanne de Salzmann, undertook responsibility for the transmission of the teaching. This group established centers throughout the Western World. |
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