Justine
Kerner
1786-1862
NOTED GERMAN poet and physician of Weinsberg; author of a remarkable
record of supernormal phenomena and experiments in magnetic therapeutics.
In 1845 he published a book entitled The Seeress of Prevost; or
Openings-up into the Inner Life of Man, and Mergings of a Spirit World
into the World of Matter. In Germany the book made a great sensation.
Kerner's reputation was very high. King Ludwig of Bavaria in 1848 and the
King of Wurttemberg in 1858 bestowed pensions upon him, while King
Frederick William IV of Prussia expressed his admiration in 1848 by
sending him the gold medal of art and science. King Ludwig made him the
first knight of the newly instituted Maximilian Order of Science and Art.
Source (with minor modifications): An Encyclopaedia of Psychic Science by Nandor Fodor (1934).
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