Quotes:Wagner, Prof. Nikolay Petrovich

Zirkoff, Boris

Wagner, Prof. Nikolay Petrovich (1829-1907). See Vol. VI, p. 449, for biographical data.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 1, p. 531

Wagner, Nikolay Petrovich (1829-1907). *Article in the Yevropeyskiy Vestnik (Messenger of Europe), 1876. See Vol. VI, p. 449, for biographical data.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 3, p. 536

Wagner, Professor Nikolay Petrovich. Russian zoologist, b. at Kazan, 1829, Son of Prof, of Kazan Univ.; educated at 2nd gymn. of native city; grad, with gold medal from Univ, of Kazan, 1849, as natural scientist. Taught natural history at Nizhny-Novgorod. Lectured at Kazan Univ., 1852; became Doctor of Nat. Sc. at Moscow Univ., 1854, Abroad, 1858-59; then in Moscow, editing Journal of the Moscow Soc. of Rural Economy; full prof, of Zoology at Kazan Univ., 1862; edit. Sclent. Notes of Kazan Univ., 1861-64; cond. zoological research in Crimea, 1863; Prof, of Zool., Univ, of St. Petersburg, 1871; made several trips abroad, 1865-79. Wrote numerous natural science papers in various Journals, and edited for some years the scientifico-artistic journal Svyet. Also wrote work entitled Tales of Kot-Murlika, which became very popular, going through many editions, and a novel, Temniy Put’ (1890).

Showed great interest in research concerning unconscious psychic functions of man and mediumistic phenomena, and became, 1891, President of the Russian Soc. of Experimental Psychology. Died 1907.

H. P. B. translated into English Wagner’s articles concerning séances with French medium Brédif (Vide the short-lived Spiritual Scientist, Boston, Mass., June 3, 10 and 17, 1875).

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 6, p. 449