Frederic William Henry Myers
Frederic William Henry Myers ( born February 6, 1843 in Keswick, Cumberland, England; † January 17, 1901 in Rome ) was an English poet, critic and essayist.
Life
Myers was in 1882 co-founded the Society for Psychical Research for the study of parapsychological phenomena, and in 1900 their president. To him the term telepathy goes back, which he introduced as a term for seemingly inexplicable events of thoughts.
On June 3, 1883, however, Myers of London Lodge of the Theosophical Society, and thus joined in 1886 as a result of Hodgson reports again.
Myers taught from 1865 to 1872 classical languages at the University of Cambridge. His most famous poem is St. Paul ( 1867). He was a specialist in the poetry of William Wordsworth and of Virgil.
1880 Myers married Eveleen Tennant ( 1856-1937 ), from his marriage had three children.
Works
- Essays, classical and modern. (2 volumes) 1883.
- Phantasms of the living. In 1886.
- Science and a future life. In 1893.
- Human personality and its survival of bodily death. In 1903. ( Internet edition )
- Wordsworth