Émile Boirac
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Émile Boirac (26 August 1851 – 20 September 1917) was a French philosopher, parapsychologist, promoter of Esperanto and writer.
Biography
[edit]Boirac was born in Guelma, Algeria. He became president of the University of Grenoble in 1898, and in 1902 president of Dijon University. A notable advocate for the universal language, Esperanto, he presided over its 1st Universal Congress (Boulogne-Sur-Mer, France, 7 August to 12 August 1905) and directed the Academy of Esperanto.
He was one of the first to use the term "déjà vu", where it appeared in a letter to the editor of Revue philosophique in 1876,[1] and subsequently in Boirac's book L'Avenir des Sciences Psychiques, where he also proposed the term "metagnomy" ("knowledge of things situated beyond those we can normally know") as a more precise description for what was, then, commonly known as clairvoyance.[2]
He was one of a group that conducted experiments on the Italian medium Eusapia Palladino.[3] He also investigated animal magnetism, and various hypnotic phenomena such as the induction of sleep, "transposition of senses", "magnetic rapport", "exteriorisation of sensitiveness", "exteriorisation of motor nerve force" etc.[4]
Boirac died in Dijon in 1917.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Revue philosophique", 1, 1876 p. 430-431. See, also, Alan S. Brown, "Deja Vu Experience: Essays in Cognitive Psychology" (2004) p. 11.
- ^ Boirac, The psychology of the future, p. 233.
- ^ M. Brady Brower. Unruly Spirits: The Science of Psychic Phenomena in Modern France (University of Illinois Press, 2010) p. 63.
- ^ Boirac, "La psychologie inconnue", 1917.
Bibliography
[edit]Books on parapsychology:
- Our hidden forces ("La psychologie inconnue") An experimental study of the psychic sciences (New York, Frederick A. Stokes company, 1917).
- The psychology of the future ("L'avenir des sciences psychiques") (London, Paul, 1918)
Books on Philosophy and education:
- Oeuvres philosophiques de Leibniz Volume 1 Volume 2 (F. Alcan, 1900).
- Boirac, Emile, & Magendie, A. Leçons de psychologie appliquée à l'éducation (Paris, F. Alcan, 1902).
- Fouillée, Alfred & Boirac, E. Esquisse d'une interpretation du monde: d'après les manuscrits de l'auteur (Paris: F. Alcan, 1913).
Esperanto books:
- Translation to esperanto of Leibniz's Monodalogy (1902)
- Ŝlosileto kvarlingva (1903)
- Perdita kaj retrovita (1905)
- Qu'est-ce que l'espéranto? (1906)
- Le Congrès espérantiste de Genève (1906)
- Pri la homa radiado (1906)
- Translation to esperanto of Molière's Don Juan (1909)
- Translation to esperanto of Henry van Dyke's The Other Wise Man, de (1909)
- Plena Vortaro E-E-a (1909)
- Le problème de la langue internationale (1911)
- Vortaro de la Oficialaj Radikoj (1911)
- Fundamentaj principoj de la vortaro esperanta (1911)
