Allan Kardec

Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail (October 3, 1804 - March 31, 1869), more commonly known as Allan Kardec, was the French author of the Spiritist Codification (or Spiritist Pentateuch), a series of books that were claimed to have been mediumistically received by Kardec from 1857 through 1868, and founder of Spiritism, a movement within Spiritualism.