Emile Boirac

Émile Boirac (26 August 1851 in Guelma, Algeria - 20 September 1917 in Dijon, France) was a French philosopher and psychic who promoted the Esperanto language.

He was appointed rector of the University of Grenoble in 1898 and of Dijon in 1902.

He was a notable diffuser of Esperanto. He presided over its First Universal Congress (Boulogne-Sur-Mer, France, August 7-12, 1905) and directed the Esperanto Academy .

He is also remembered for the creation of the term déjà vu in his book L'Avenir des Sciences Psychiques, where he also defines metagnomia, the knowledge acquired without the use of the senses, what is now known as extrasensory perception.

Boirac was part of the Consultation Council of the Argentine Magnetological Society, founded by the Paraguayan chemist, writer and psychic Ovidio Rebaudi. In said Council there were also Charles Richet (Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1901), César de Vesme, Enrico Morselli, Théodore Flournoy among others.

Works

• Translation into Esperanto of the Monodalogy of Leibniz (1902)
• Sxlosileto kvarlingva (1903)
• Perdita kaj retrovita (1905)
• Qu'est-ce that I'm expecting? (1906)
• Le Congrès espérantiste de Genève (1906)
• Pri la homa radiado (1906)
• Translation of Esperanto Don Juan de Molière (1909)
• Translation into Esperanto The story of the other Magi Kingof Henry van Dyke (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 Esperata (1911)
• L'Avenir des Sciences Psychiques (1917)