Joseph Ennemoser

Joseph Ennemoser (* November 15, 1787 on the Egghof at Rabenstein pass eggs, now the town moss in eggs pass, South Tyrol, then Austria - Hungary, † September 19, 1854 in Rottach -Egern ) was a South Tyrolean physician and medical- philosophical writer.

Ennemoser, the child of poor parents was raised by his grandfather, with whom he herded cattle together. He attended high school in Merano and Trento and studied from 1806 in Innsbruck medicine. He followed the outbreak of the Tyrolean uprising in 1809 Andreas Hofer as a secretary and then continued his studies in Erlangen and Vienna continue. In 1812 he went to Berlin, where he met Christian Friedrich von Peter Dorff and Louis Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow. In the summer of 1812, he went along with several Tyrolese to London to get there support in the fight against Napoleon. From 1813, he was active in the Lützow Free Corps leader of a Tyrolean Protect Department, where he distinguished himself in Lauenburg and particularly Jülich. In September 1813, he was promoted to Lieutenant Seconde.

He ended by the Peace of Paris his studies in Berlin and was a supporter of, founded by Franz Anton Mesmer new theory of animal magnetism. He became in 1819 professor of medicine in Bonn, in 1837 took his dismissal, could only be in Innsbruck and in 1841 in Munich, where he gained a great reputation as a magnetic physician. He died September 19, 1854 in Egern (now Rottach -Egern ) at Tegernsee.

In 1955 ( 22nd District ) was named after him in the Ennemosergasse Vienna Danube city. Since 1938 there are in Munich and since 2000 in Bonn Ennemoserstraße.

Works (selection)

• De Montium Influxu in Valetudinem Hominum, Vitae genus et Morbos. Dissertatio Medica inauguralis ( From the influence of the mountains on the health of people, their lifestyles and their diseases). Berlin 1816.
• The magnetism after the all-round relationship of his being, his manifestations, application and Enträthselung in a historical evolution of all times and among all peoples. Leipzig 1819.
• Concerning the detailed interaction of body and soul, with anthropological studies of the murderer Adolph minor. Habicht, Bonn 1825.
• The magnetism in its historical evolution (Leipzig 1819), from the second edition with the title:

History of animal magnetism. Vol 1 History of Magic. Leipzig 1844. Reprint of the edition of 1844, Sändig, Wiesbaden 1966.

• Historical and psychological studies on the origin and nature of the human soul at all, and the animation of the child in particular. Bonn 1824, 2nd edition, Stuttgart, 1851.
• Anthropological views on better knowledge of man. Bonn 1828th
• The magnetism in relation to nature and religion ( with an appendix on the table-turning ). Stuttgart 1842, 2nd edition 1853.
• What is cholera and how can you keep the safest in front of her? In addition to specifying the most proven cure the same. 2 Auflg. Stuttgart 1848.
• Instructions for Mesmerschen practice. Stuttgart 1852. Reprint of the ed 1852 Kuballe, Osnabrück 1984.
• Horoscope in world history. Munich 1860. Horoscope in world history. With autobiogr d. Fragment: My Life as well as a symbolic figure and a letter facsimile ed. and inlaid. by Hermann Haase. Pflüger Verlag, Munich 1924.