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Franz Anton Mesmer (/ ˈmɛzmər / MEZ-mər; [1] German: [ˈmɛsmɐ]; 23 May 1734 – 5 March 1815) was a German physician with an interest in astronomy. He theorized the existence of a process of natural energy transference occurring between all animate and inanimate objects; this he called "animal magnetism", later referred to as mesmerism.
Franz Anton Mesmer (born May 23, 1734, Iznang, Swabia [Germany]—died March 5, 1815, Meersburg, Swabia) was a German physician whose system of therapeutics, known as mesmerism, was the forerunner of the modern practice of hypnotism.
Jun 4, 2016 · Franz Mesmer is one of very few people whose name has become a verb in everyday use - mesmerize. Mesmer was friends with some of the most memorable characters in history, including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Marie Antoinette.
Jan 1, 2007 · In the late eighteenth century, Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1815) promulgated “animal magnetism” as a pervasive property of nature that could be channeled as an effective therapy for a wide variety...
Associate professor of History, Stanford University. Franz Anton Mesmer, a doctor from the Swabian village of Iznang, was born on 23 May 1734, the third of nine children of a gamekeeper and forest warden to the Archbishop of Constance.
Dec 6, 2011 · In the late 1770s, in the midst of the French Enlightenment, Franz Anton Mesmer was at the height of his medical career. Hundreds of people flocked to be cured by the man in the lilac taffeta robe who waved his hands and an iron rod over his patients’ bodies, sending them into fits as they fell to the ground.
In the late eighteenth century, Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1815) promulgated “animal magnetism” as a pervasive property of nature that could be channeled as an effective therapy for a wide variety of conditions (Fig. 1). His claims of dramatic...
