Whitall Perry, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetWhitall Perry
Comparative religions scholar
Date of Birth: 19-Jan-1920
Place of Birth: Belmont, Massachusetts, United States
Date of Death: 18-Nov-2005
Profession: writer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Whitall Perry
- Whitall Nicholson Perry (January 19, 1920 – November 18, 2005) was born in Belmont, Massachusetts (near Boston), on January 19, 1920.
- A quest for wisdom led him, as a young man, to travel out to the Far East.
- In Bali, in 1939, he found the echoes of a still authentic traditional world that sparked a lifelong encounter with ancient traditions, which he approached through the metaphysical perspectives of Platonism and Vedanta.
- He spent several decades abroad, living first in Giza, Egypt, where he met and frequented the French metaphysician René Guénon, and later in Lausanne, Switzerland where he became a close associate of the German metaphysician and mystic, Frithjof Schuon.
- In 1980, he moved to Bloomington, Indiana where he resided for the last 25 years of his life.
- He died on November 18, 2005.
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