Frederic WH Myers
Frederic WH Myers ( Frederic William Henry "Fred" Myers; born February 6, 1843 in Keswick , Cumberland , England , † January 17, 1901 in Rome ) was an English poet , critic and essayist .
Life
Myers was a co-founder of the Society for Psychical Research for the study of parapsychological phenomena in 1882 and its president in 1900. The term telepathy goes back to him , which he introduced as a term for apparently inexplicable transmissions of thoughts.
On June 3, 1883, Myers joined the London Lodge of the Theosophical Society , but in 1886 as a result of the Hodgson Report .
Myers taught classical languages at Cambridge University from 1865 to 1872 . His best known poem is St. Paul (1867). He was a specialist in the poetry of William Wordsworth and Virgil .
In 1880, Myers married Eveleen Tennant (1856–1937), who became known as a portrait photographer. The marriage had three children.
Works
- Wordsworth. 1881.
- Essays, classical and modern. 2 volumes. 1883.
- with Edmund Gurney & Frank Podmore : Phantasms of the living. 1886.
- Living ghosts and other telepathic phenomena. Spohr, 1897 (abridged)
- Science and a future life. 1893.
- Human personality and its survival of bodily death. 1903 ( online edition in the Internet Archive ).
- Fragments of Inner Life: An Autobiographical Sketch. Society for Psychical Research, 1961
literature
- Carlos S. Alvarado: On the centenary of Frederic WH Myers' "Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death" . In: Journal of Parapsychology. Vol. 68, 2004, pp. 3–43 ( PDF; 156 kB ( Memento from October 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ))
- Trevor Hamilton: Immortal Longings: FWH Myers and the Victorian Search for Life After Death. Imprint Academic, 2009, ISBN 1845401239
- William James : Frederic Myers' Services to Psychology . In: Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research. Vol. 17, 1901, pp. 13-23
- Emily W. Kelly: The contributions of FWH Myers to psychology. In: Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. Vol. 65, 2001, pp. 65-90
- Emily W. Kelly & Carlos S. Alvarado: Images in Psychiatry: Frederic William Henry Myers, 1843–1901 . In: The American Journal of Psychiatry. Vol. 162, No. 1, 2005, p. 34
- Emily Williams Kelly: FWH Myers and the empirical study of the mind-body problem. In: Edward F. Kelly et al .: Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century. Rowman & Littlefield, 2007, ISBN 0742547922 , pp. 47-116
- Frederic William Henry Myers . In: J. Gordon Melton (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. 5th edition. 2001
- Frederic William Henry Myers . In: Helene Pleasants (Ed.): Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology with Directory and Glossary. 1964
Web links
- Frederic WH Myers , short biography of Nandor Fodor (1934) on the International Survivalist Society website(with links to several articles by Myers)
- Myers, Frederic WH , short biography of Michael Tymn in Spiritualist Resources
- Entry in the Encyclopædia Britannica (English)
- Studying the Life and Work of Frederic WH Myers , article by Carlos S. Alvarado in Edublogs, July 11, 2012
- Works by FWH Myers in Project Gutenberg ( currently not usually available for users from Germany )
Footnotes
- ↑ Encarta : Frederic Myers ( Memento from August 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Robert Deane: Eveleen Myers . Biography on photo-web
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Myers, Frederic WH |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Myers, Frederic William Henry (full name); Myers, FWH; Myers, Fred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British poet, critic and essayist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1843 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Keswick , Cumberland , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 17, 1901 |
| Place of death | Rome |