Ennemoser

Ennemoser, JOSEPH, a medico-philosophic writer, was born in 1787 at Hintersee, in the Tyrol, and commenced his medical studies at Innsbruck in 1806. On the rising of the Tyrolese against the French in 1809 he followed Andreas Hofer as his secretary; at the close of the war he went to Erlangen, and subsequently to Vienna, for the purpose of concluding his studies. In 1813 he raised a company of Tyrolese marksmen, who were of great service during the campaigns that followed. After the peace of Paris he finished his curriculum at Berlin, and devoted himself to the study of animal magnetism. In 1819 he was made professor of Medicine at Bonn, where he lectured until 1837; he then practised for a time at Innsbruck, but in 1841 removed to Munich, where he obtained a great reputation by the application of hypnotism as a curative power. He died 19th September 1854. Among his numerous writings Der Magnetismus in seiner geschichtlichen Entwicklung (Leip. 1819) is reckoned his principal work.