!!!Mesmer, Franz Anton

b. Iznang/Lake Constance (Germany), May 23, 1734, 
d. Meersburg/Lake Constance (Germany), March 5, 1815, physician. 
Had his own practice in Vienna between 1765-1777, later in Paris, 
where he founded the theory of "animal magnetism" ("mesmerism"). His 
basic idea of the existence of a power in the human organism which may 
be transferred directly or through objects (as the centre of radiation 
activity) was not understood by his contemporaries, nevertheless 
became fashionable and was exploited by charlatans.

!Publications
De planetarum influxu in corpus humanum, 1766; Schreiben 
ueber die Magnetkur, 1776; Memoire sur la decouverte du Magnetisme 
animal, 1779 (German 1781); Geschichte des tierischen Magnetismus, 
1783.

!Literature
N. Tischner, F. M., 1928; S. Zweig, Heilung durch den 
Geist, 1931; R. Schneider, F. M., 1969; E. Florey, Ars 
magnetica, 1995; NDB.



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