Agelos Tanagras

Angelos Tanagras (1877-1971). Angelos Tanagras (the literary pseudonym of Angelos Evangelidis) was born in Athens. He studied at the Medical School of the University of Athens and continued his studies in Germany. During his military service in the navy, he participated in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, the Balkan Wars, and World War I. During the same period, he served as the head of the health department at the port of Piraeus, the quarantine station in Salamis, and the port of Smyrna, where he was also sent as a representative of the International Health Commission after the end of World War I. He retired with the rank of General Medical Officer and engaged in psychophysiological studies. In 1923, he founded the first Society for Psychic Research in Greece, and from 1925, he published the scientific journal Psychic Research, within the framework of which he organized the fourth International Psychophysiological Congress in Athens. He published psychological and parapsychological texts. He made his literary debut with the novel Sponge Divers of the Aegean, which was also translated into French. For more biographical details on Angelos Tanagras, see Moatsos E.Th., "Tanagras Angelos," Great Greek Encyclopedia 22. Athens, Pyrsos, 1933. (Source: Archive of Greek Authors, EKEBI).