William Stoddart, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

William Stoddart

Scottish physician

Date of Birth: 25-Jun-1925

Place of Birth: Carstairs, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Profession: physicist, translator, theologian, philosopher

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

William Stoddart (born 25 June 1925, in Carstairs) is a Scottish physician, author and "spiritual traveller", who has written several books on the Perennial Philosophy and on comparative religion.He has been called a “master of synthesis” and is one of the important Perennialist writers in the present day.
For many years he was assistant editor of the British journal Studies in Comparative Religion.
He has translated into English, from the original French or German, several of the books of the perennialist masters Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) and Titus Burckhardt (1908–1984).