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Emile 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 " deja 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 ]

• Paul Joire
• Albert de Rochas
• Joseph Grasset

References [ edit ]

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. Lecons de psychologie appliquee a l'education (Paris, F. Alcan, 1902).
• Fouillee, Alfred & Boirac, E. Esquisse d'une interpretation du monde: d'apres les manuscrits de l'auteur (Paris: F. Alcan, 1913).

Esperanto books :

• Translation to esperanto of Leibniz 's Monodalogy (1902)
• ?losileto kvarlingva (1903)
• Perdita kaj retrovita (1905)
• Qu'est-ce que l'esperanto? (1906)
• Le Congres esperantiste de Geneve (1906)
• Pri la homa radiado (1906)
• Translation to esperanto of Moliere '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 probleme de la langue internationale (1911)
• Vortaro de la Oficialaj Radikoj (1911)
• Fundamentaj principoj de la vortaro esperanta (1911)

External links [ edit ]

• Works by or about Emile Boirac at Internet Archive