Charles Robert Richet

Biography

Incorporated physiology at the medical college in 1878, member then president of the pacifist Companies (of which it will chair the national congresses and international), professor of physiology in 1887, member of the Académie of Medicine in 1898, member of the Academy of Science in 1914, jubilee scientific in front of an international Parliament of scientists in 1926, it is an excellent literary man, sociologist, philosophical, psychological, curious about all, to start with the man.

Founding member of the eugenic French company of , of which he is the president of 1920 to 1926, he derives towards positions eugenists and violently racists (ideas that he supports in particular in human Sélection , published in 1919). He was Franc-maçon.

He is also pioneer of aviation with Victor Tatin, in favor of the Esperanto, and especially quoted to have Co-founded the international Institut metapsychic in 1919, while having propagated this term since 1894. He devotes most of his life to the study of the phenomena paranormaux via this science of the unusual one. He pushed his colleagues a long time to be inclined in front of the facts of the experimental method, but forever obtained the consensus for this work, mainly because he would have been misled once in the episode of the Villa Carmen (1905).

According to the article obituary of Eugene Osty, “Pacifist? ”:

“This pacifist French was not of the imbecile species anti-France. Its country found it ready to help it constantly useful. In 1870, it preceded the call. In 1916, 66 years old, he undertook a crusade in Italy, in Romania, in Russia, country populated of his pupils, to encourage there Latin and Slavic with the fight which he hoped to have to close the horrible habit of the war. From return in France it goes to the armies where its councils can be useful and it studies there the effects of the explosive shock on the combatants. Then it gets busy to observe, at the hospital of the coast Saint-Andrew, the beneficial effects of its zomothérapie on the tuberculous soldiers. ”

Publications

From 1878 to 1902, he is editor association of the Scientific magazine , in which he publishes many articles. He also collaborates in the Journal of physiology and general pathology and publishes many communications on physiology, physiological chemistry, experimental pathology, normal and pathological psychology.

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