Gibier, Paul (1851-1900)
Gibier, Paul (1851-1900)
French scientist, director of the American branch of the Pasteur Institute of New York, who became interested in psychical research in 1885 and found a remarkable medium in Mrs. Salmon (pseudonym of Carrie M. Sawyer ), with whom he conducted experiments for ten years both in his New York laboratory and at his country home.
Gibier established the reality of some surprising phenomena and planned to take his medium to England, France, and Egypt, but his plans were cut short when he was killed by a runaway horse. The night before the accident he reportedly dreamed that he rode out alone, was thrown from his buggy, and died; he told his dream to his wife and laughed at her fears.
Sources:
Gibier, Paul. Physiologie transcendentale: Analyse des choses. 1890. Translated as Psychism: Analysis of Things Existing. N.p., 1890.
——. Le Spiritisme (Fakirisme occidental). Paris: C. Doin, 1887.