Alexander N. Aksakof

Alexandr Nikolayevich Aksakov (Russian Cyrillic: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Акса́ков; May 27, 1832 - January 4, 1903), also known as Alexander Aksakof or Alexandre Aksakof, was a Russian civil servant, employed by the Tsarist interior ministry, State Chancellery (as a State Councilor), and various other government departments for twenty-seven years, as well as a writer and translator (including the works of Emanuel Swedenborg) who was closely involved in Russian and European Spiritualism and the study of mediumship generally. He is credited with coining the term telekinesis (as a translation of the German word Fernwirkung).

Selected Bibliography

 * &mdash; [English: About Heaven, About the World of Spirits and About Hell; translation from the orignal Latin De Caelo et Ejus Mirabilibus et de Inferno Ex Auditis et Visis, 1758.]
 * &mdash; [English: Animist and Spiritism: A Critical Study of Medium Phenomena and Their Explanation by Hypotheses of "Nervous Power", "Hallucination" and "Unconscious"; a response to Eduard von Hartmann's Der Spiritismus (1885)]
 * &mdash; [English: Harbingers of Spiritism over the Last 250 Years]
 * &mdash; [English: Precursors of Spiritism: Outstanding Cases Arbitrary Mediumistic Appearances From The Last Three Centuries]