Naphthali ben Levi (Henri) van Praag (September 12, 1916 in

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November 3, 1988 in

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) was a Jewish-Dutch writer, teacher, and

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, and became known also for his publications in the field of

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Childhood and education

Van Praag was the son of Esther Van Praag and diamond cutter Louis (Levi) van Praag. The family was Jewish but not religious. The family moved to

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, where Van Praag attended elementary and high school. In 1931 the family Van Praag was again registered in Amsterdam, and Henri attended the five-year course at the municipal training college (diploma 1936), where he met Leny van Huystee, whom he married in 1947. In 1938 he received his certificate of competency as headmaster, and in 1939 a teaching certificate in French. At this time his interest in

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led him to read Chinese sage Li, a Jewish mystic whose name he never mentioned, the theologian J. Eykman (1892-1945) and the philosopher-physicist-educator Dr Philip Kohnstamm (1875-1951). He also had a practice as a

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and

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. Van Praag spent

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in hiding, in Amsterdam and other places. Many of his relatives were deported to

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s, where more than seventy relatives were murdered. Leny maintained contact with him during this period.

Post-war career

After the war, Van Praag wanted to work for peace, and "turned ..to people across all boundaries of religion, or national cultures. He exchanged as any other information from Judaism to Buddhism, of Taoism to gnosticism, from theology to science.Avraham Soetendorp, "Henry van Praag: a great counselor and seer", ''Het Parool'' 11 April 1988. After obtaining the deed Dutch Language and Literature for

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(1946), he began an eagerness for several university studies: general philosophy of science, physics and pedagogy (Kohnstamm), logic (

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), mathematics (

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), biology (Heimans), sociology (Mennicken), economics (Mermans), general linguistics (

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), history (

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), Judaica (

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), psychology (

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) and phenomenology of religion and cultural anthropology (

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). Meanwhile, he was heavily involved with the Jews returning from the camps, especially in children. He conducted research for the Institute for the Tropics. His first, not in book form, study number, time and space, (1949) deals with the psychological foundations of mathematics and physics. His first book, The Meaning of Education (1950), was devoted to education and ends with a passionate creed. He did bachelor's degree in 1950, Master's degree in 1951. Under the pseudonym Bernard Raimond, he published a novel in the style of mystical Meyrink, is waiting for you (1953), a document that attests to his deep interest in and knowledge of

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, the

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and

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. Shortly after the war in 1946 Van Praag was director of teaching HBS (Aid Study). Hammelburg related to the pedagogic Social Work community, working at the Dutch Institute for Psychological Research in Hilversum. In 1949 he took part in the tenth congress of philosophy in

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. In 1951, Van Praag pedagogical consultant at the Institute of his teacher Kohnstamm, the General Social Consulting. At an international conference in 1952 the World Organization for Mutual Understanding and Co-operation (WOMUC) set up and Henri became chairman. Van Praag included

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's father, Zvi Werblowsky and Karl Thieme. One of the initiatives that emerged from the conference was the plan for a three-part series Das Lebendige Gottes Wort, an

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with commentary from Jewish and Christian writings on revelation, prayer and promise. Many scholars, including

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, had agreed to cooperate, Thieme and Van Praag would lead. The plan was not implemented in this form by the sudden death of Thieme and the departure of Van Praag to

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Intermezzo Uruguay (1953-1954)

Intermezzo Uruguay (1953-1954) in early 1950, the

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under

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. Van Praag in 1953 went to Uruguay to investigate whether this country a new home for Jewish children could be. He was visiting Montevideo in psychology,

pedagogy Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken as ...

and philosophy, while he also had a practice as a psychologist-therapist. All his life he would also like therapist (counselor) for fellows remain available, people who were on something or had a question, could always go to him for an interview or an opinion. He then listened to the other, conducted an interview and ended with this advice. He also studied

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and culture in Montevideo with Professor Li Yu-Ying (

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), former Rector of the Imperial University of Peking. With Stalin's death and the arrival of

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in 1953 compared the situation for Jews in

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to improve, so the mission had formed the reason for the trip to

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was halted.

In the center of society (1954-1973)

In the center of society was founded in 1954 with his brother Henry I. (Dorus) van Praag and I.J. Sloos, and was aimed at improving the dialogue between Jews and Christians. With Jacob Soetendorp he worked on the series Phoenix Bible Paperbacks. Soetendorp translated large parts of the

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again from Hebrew into Dutch, inspired by the new German translation of Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig. Van Praag had to finalize the 18 parts of

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, J. Goudoever of the final editing of the 12 parts of the

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. Van Praag also wrote the entire series of some forty articles and introductory and linking between texts and other items were the result of numerous conversations between

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and

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Christians, Jews and - to a lesser extent - Muslims. Van Praag was also active in many areas. He was appointed in 1957 as a teacher at the local training college in 4 hours per week in pedagogy and in the same year was appointed professor at the LOI (Pelman Institute). In 1958 he became director of the Center for pedagogic Psychology in Amsterdam, in 1964 he was consultant and from 1966 senior lecturer of Teleac (a relationship that until 1977 would last), (main) editor for various publishers and magazines including Studium Generale, Effective Business Management and Intermediate. He was a valued partner of leading people in the scientific, religious, political and philosophical territory.

Professor (1973-1988)

From 1973 to 1978 he was professor of sociology (religious schools) at the Wageningen Agricultural University. In 1974 we started with the establishment of the International Academy of Manternach (

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), with the first academic year of 1976. This academy was on March 15, 1979 as International University Lugano (

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) continued and Van Praag was Chancellor and taught, among other methods, psychology and parapsychology. He was also rector of the Academy of Religion Vergleichende Geschichte in

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(

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), where he also taught religious studies. In 1975 he founded the magazine ''Prana'' (magazine for

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and the periphery of science, publishing Ankh-Hermes) on. Prof. Van Praag had a good relationship with the publisher Paul Kluwer and was a consultant to the publisher. In 1978 he succeeded Professor W.H.C. Tenhaeff as professor of parapsychology at the University of Utrecht, a position he held until 1986 would continue to play. Van Praag highlights in this field, that psychology should be seen as a border area of what is called parapsychology, as

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defined as a straight line curve with a degree of curvature = 0. His wife Leny van Praag - Van Huystee deceased in 1981.

Bibliography

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References

*"I was King Solomon. Lo and behold, the next day a delegation from Ethiopia." Interview with Bibeb in the Netherlands Fri 12/01/1973 *"Parapsychology and religion." Interview with Rex Brico in Elsevier Magazine 13/05/1978 *"Prof.. Drs Henri van Praag:" I am an optimist culture, the last and only "" Interview with P. van der Eijk in the weekly Time 05/26/1978 *"Drs. H. van Praag: an extraordinary man", obituary by Harm van den Berg, In: NRC Handelsblad 03.11.1988 *"Henri van Praag: a major advisor and visionary," by Avraham Soetendorp obituary, in: Het Parool 04.11.1988 *"Professor Henry (Abba) van Praag: Take it easy, do not hurry, you have the infinity for you." Surya memories of green, in: Prana No. 56, Summer 1989, pp. 63–73 Ankh-Hermes, Deventer *"Henri van Praag: the man behind Prana" by Hein van Dongen, in: Prana No. 100, April 1997, pp. 87–91 Ankh-Hermes, Deventer {{DEFAULTSORT:Praag, Henri van Dutch psychologists Dutch theologians Academic staff of Wageningen University and Research 1988 deaths 1916 births Writers from Amsterdam 20th-century psychologists