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Angkelos Tanagras (1877-1973)
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Angkelos Evangkelidis (Tanagras) {Άγγελος Ευαγγελίδης (Τανάγρας)} (1877-1973). Angkelos Tanagras (pen name of the doctor and penman Angkelos Evangkelidis), was born in 1877 and worked as a naval medical doctor in the Navy. He retired in 1923. Immediately after his retirement he established the Hellenic Society For Psychical Research {Eteria Psihikon Erevnon ~ Εταιρεία Ψυχικών Ερευνών}, the first of its kind in Greece, which aimed at coming up with scientific explanations regarding parapsychological phenomena.
Since 1933, Aleksandra Horemi-Benaki {Αλεξάνδρα Χωρέμη-Μπενάκη}, daughter of Emmanouil Benakis {Εμμανουήλ Μπενάκης}, was the main sponsor and closest assistant of Tanagras. Aleksandra Horemi-Benaki along with Kalliroe Parrin {Καλλιρόη Παρρέν} [People], famous leader of the feminist movement and founder of the Lyceum Of Greek Women {Likion Ton Ellinidon ~ Λύκειον Τών Ελληνίδων}, undertook the mission of promoting the ideas of Tanagras to the public. Under Parrin's initiative, Tanagras lectured for the first time on his subject, in a lecture hall at the Lyceum Of Greek Women.
His Society was covered with glory for almost 15 years. Its gravity made it famous world-wide and in 1930 the Society organized and hosted the 4th International Conference Of Psychophysiology which took place in Athens [Place Names], Greece.
Tanagras wrote many books which were translated into several languages, tried to differentiate between parapsychological phenonema and superstition and proposed a theory of his own, in which he gives scientific explanation on the prediction of the future.
Henri Bergson [People], Sigmund Freud [People], Marie Sklodowska-Curie [People] and Albert Einstein [People] where some of the most prominent honorary members of his Society.
Angkelos Tanagras died in 1973.
Angkelos Evangkelidis (Tanagras) (1877-1973)
Aleksandra Horemi-Benaki
04-23-2004