Blauvelt, Augustus
clergyman, author, was born April 7, 1832, in Covert, N. Y. He is a Dutch Reformed clergyman of New Jersey, deposed from the ministry on account of his liberal doctrinal views embodied in papers in the Century Magazine. He is the author of The Kingdom of Satan; and The Present Religious Crisis.
BLAVATSKY, HELENA PETROVNA, theosophist, was born July 31, 1831, in Southern Russia. Her father was Col.
Peter Hahn, a descendant of the Von Rottenstern-Hahns of Mecklenburg, Germany. She studied the French and English languages in Paris and London; and wandered in Africa, Europe, America, India and Central Asia. She acquired complete control of her psychic faculties,. and entered upon her life work of explaining the nature and source of such phenomena. In 1873 she came to America, and five years later became an American citizen by naturalization. In 1875 she founded the Theosophical society, with headquarters in New York city; and in 1879 began the publication of The Theosophist. In 1888 she published her monumental work, entitled The Secret Doctrine. The society which she founded now numbers over six hundred branches. or lodges throughout the civilized world.
She died May 8, 1891, in London, England.