Adolf Just

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Information board in Eckertal near Stapelburg about the "Jungborn" sanatorium

Adolf Just (born August 8, 1859 in Lüthorst ; † January 20, 1936 in Starnberg ) was a German bookseller, naturopath and advocate of the "strictly meatless diet". He was the founder of the Jungborn sanatorium near Stapelburg in the Eckertal of the Harz region .

life and work

Born the eldest of twelve children, Just grew up in Lüthorst on a small farm with an inn. On the advice of the local pastor Georg Kleine, he attended the secondary school in Goslar , where he passed the Abitur. He began an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Leipzig and moved to the Braunschweig bookstore Graff in 1882 . A few years later he fell ill with a nervous disorder that was treated in vain with conventional medical methods. In self-study he turned to various naturopathic treatments, took part in various Kneipp cures , became a vegetarian and consistently avoided sugar and salt. Through his experiences he became a lay doctor. As a remedy, he recommended loess earth , which is still offered today as a natural remedy.

A replica of a light air house for spa guests on the former Jungborn site in Eckertal. In the background the entrance to the "Ladies Park"

In the Eckertal near Stapelburg in the Harz Mountains, Adolf Just bought the historic Eckerkrug inn on September 25, 1895, together with 14 Morgen Wiese, in order to found the Jungborn health resort there a short time later . "The groundbreaking ceremony took place on April 1st, 1896". June 20, 1896 was the opening day. The name "Jungborn" is based on the mythological term fountain of youth . The valley is "protected on the leeward side of the Harz with a correspondingly mild climate". The sanatorium relied on a "planned sick diet only with berries, raw fruit, nuts, whole grain bread, raw sweet and sour milk and milk products". Numerous celebrities visited the Jungborn for rest and relaxation. Actors such as Marika Rökk , Viktor de Kowa and Hans Albers as well as the writer Franz Kafka , who stayed here for three weeks in July 1912 and worked on the conception of the "missing", used the remoteness of the sanatorium . Kafka is said to have overcome his writing crisis in Jungborn. At the end of the 1920s, it was possible to accommodate 250 spa guests.

In 1897 Emanuel Felke, who became famous as the “clay pastor”, visited the Jungborn and was so impressed that he founded a similar Jungborn after his return to Repelen near Moers and later in Bad Sobernheim .

His "nervous weakness", which had existed since his youth, forced him in 1908 to resign from the management of his light-air sanatorium.

In 1918 Just founded the healing earth company Luvos Just GmbH, Blankenburg / Harz, in Blankenburg (Harz) , which still produces healing earth in Friedrichsdorf

Adolf Just's main work "Return to Nature!" Was first published in 1896 by A. Graff in Braunschweig. The book was published in Germany in twelve editions and around 50,000 copies until 1930 and was regularly "significantly increased" or "significantly expanded and perfected".

The original title of the 1st edition was: “Return to nature! The natural way of life as the only means to heal all illnesses and ailments of the body, spirit and soul. The natural bath, light and air in their application in the full sense of nature, the power of the earth as the most important remedy of nature, natural nutrition ” and was published by A. Graff in Braunschweig.

Working in other countries

Just's book has been translated into English, Italian, Spanish, French, Hindi and Telugu . and even influenced Gandhi's ideas Gandhi read Just's “Return to Nature!” and achieved “wonderful results” with the earth treatment. He was so impressed by Just's methods that he sent one of his students to Jungborn in 1933 "to get an idea of ​​the naturopathic institution and the healing methods used there". In India, a naturopathic hospital near Pune, which still exists today, was founded .

An American version of the Jungborn was founded by Just-Disciple Benedict Lust in the Ramapo Mountains in the town of Butler in New Jersey, which he called "Yungborn" based on Just's name. In 1903 Lust translated the book "Return to Nature!" Under the title Return to Nature; the True Natural Method of Living and Healing and the True Salvation of the Soul: Paradise Regained and played such an essential part in the fact that Just's ideas became known in the English-speaking world.

Fonts

  • Get back to nature! The true natural way of healing and living. Water, light, air, earth, fruits and true Christianity. Stapelburg 1896 ( full text in English translation (PDF; 2.4 MB) ).
  • Jungborn echo. Brief history of the Jungborn, particularly interesting judgments, reports, articles and important spa reports. 1904.
  • The Jungborn table. A new, simple, vegetarian cookbook. 1905.
  • Help on the way! Spirit and soul life. 1907.
  • The fight for the truth. The natural way of life (earth and clay) in court. 1907.
  • The natural healing method in a short presentation. Human salvation for body, mind and soul. 1913.
  • The healing earth, the old natural and folk remedy and its wonderful healing successes with internal and external use. The whole true natural healing method on a Christian basis. 1919.
  • The earth as a remedy. The old natural and folk remedies and their wonderful healing results with internal and external use. The true natural healing method on a Christian basis. 1921.

literature

  • Alfred Brauchle : Return to Paradise. The bookseller Adolf Just. In: ders .: History of naturopathy in life pictures. 2nd expanded edition of Große Naturärzte. Reclam, Stuttgart 1951, pp. 297-302.
  • Uwe Heyll: water, fasting, air and light. The history of naturopathy in Germany . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-593-37955-5 , p. 165 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Sabine Merta: Paths and aberrations to the modern cult of slimness. Diet food and physical culture as the search for new forms of lifestyle 1880–1930 . Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-515-08109-7 , pp. 49 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Andrea Schrickel: Adolf Just (1859-1936). An important representative of naturopathy in the 19th and early 20th centuries, founder of the naturopathic institution "Jungborn" in Stapelburg / Harz and the healing earth company Luvos Just GmbH Blankenburg / Harz. 2011 (medical dissertation, University of Magdeburg, 2012).
  • Andrea Schrickel: Adolf Just. An important representative of naturopathy. 2nd Edition. Publishing house Heilerde-Gesellschaft Luvos Just GmbH & Co. KG, Friedrichsdorf 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-053055-5 .

Web links

Commons : Adolf Just  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andrea Schrickel: Adolf Just (1859-1936). An important representative of naturopathy in the 19th and early 20th centuries, founder of the naturopathic institution "Jungborn" in Stapelburg / Harz and the healing earth company Luvos Just GmbH Blankenburg / Harz. 2011 (medical dissertation, University of Magdeburg, 2012), p. 169.
  2. ^ A b Rudolf Just (brother of Adolf Just and head of the Jungborn sanatorium): The Jungborn cookbook. Natural nutrition and health food. 2nd Edition. Dyk, Leipzig 1939, p. 9.
  3. ↑ a b Georg Ruppelt: Just's Lichtlufthütte . In: Eva-Maria Bast, Georg Ruppelt (Ed.): Braunschweiger Secrets - 50 exciting stories from the Lion City . Braunschweiger Zeitung with Bast Medien GmbH, Überlingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-946581-22-2 , p. 153-155 .
  4. ↑ Schrickel 2011, p. 91.
  5. ↑ a b c Schrickel 2011, p. 92.
  6. ↑ Schrickel 2011, p. 95.
  7. ↑ Klaus Wagenbach: Franz Kafka, pictures from his life, p. 124
  8. ↑ Klaus Wagenbach: Franz Kafka, pictures from his life, p. 127
  9. ↑ Schrickel 2011, p. 181 with reference to Stefan Klein: How Franz Kafka overcame his writing crisis on the northern edge of the Harz Mountains. The rise and fall of Germany's largest natural healing institution. December 6, 2003 ( PDF ).
  10. ↑ Schrickel 2011, p. 173.
  11. ↑ Schrickel 2011, p. 44 f.
  12. ^ Karl Eduard Rothschuh : Naturopathic Movement, Reform Movement, Alternative Movement. Stuttgart 1983; Reprint Darmstadt 1986, pp. 94-96.
  13. ^ Robert Jütte : History of Alternative Medicine. From folk medicine to today's unconventional therapies. CH Beck, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-406-40495-2 , pp. 138-140.
  14. ^ Healing Earth Society , Luvos website, accessed March 4, 2017.
  15. ↑ Schrickel 2011, p. 253 f.
  16. ↑ Schrickel 2011, p. 253.
  17. ↑ Schrickel 2011, p. 256.
  18. ↑ Savitā Siṃha: Global Concern with Environmental Crisis and Gandhi's Vision. APH, New Delhi 1999, ISBN 81-7648-059-2 , p. 61.
  19. ↑ MK Gandhi: An autobiography or the story of my experiments with truth , Union Verlag Berlin, 1st edition 1982, p. 314
  20. ↑ Schrickel 2011, p. 180.
  21. ^ History & Principles of Naturopathy. In: NatureCureIndia.info .
  22. ↑ June O. Leavitt: The Mystical Life of Franz Kafka: Theosophy, Cabala, and the Modern Spiritual Revival, Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 158f.
  23. ↑ a b June O. Leavitt, p 159
  24. ↑ a b Andrea Schrickel: Adolf Just. An important representative of naturopathy. 2nd edition, 2016, p. 275
personal data
SURNAME Just, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naturopath
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Lüthorst
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1936
Place of death Starnberg