Demos Raphael was born in Izmir (Turkey) in 1892, lived in Istanbul and graduated from the Anatolia College (in the area of Amasya) in 1910. He moved to the United States in 1913 and obtained his doctorate from Harvard, where he taught Philosophy from 1919 to 1962. He moved to Athens (Greece) in 1967 and died while on-board a ship to New York in 1968.