Eric Voegelin (1901–1985) taught law at the University of Vienna, government at Louisiana State University, political theory and philosophy at the University of Munich, and was professor emeritus of political science at the University of Munich and Henry Salvatori Distinguished Scholar at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. Among his many works were the monumental four-volume Order and History (1956–1974), The New Science of Politics (1952), Anamnesis (1978), Science, Politics, and Gnosticism (Two Essays) (1968).