Blanche Merz

Blanche Merz (born August 13, 1919 - January 1, 2002 ) was a Swiss civil engineer , politician and geobiologist .

biography

Blanche Merz was active in European politics from 1951 , for example as a Council of Europe observer in Strasbourg ; she also became the first female member of a Swiss cantonal parliament in the canton of Vaud . In Lausanne she worked in her civil engineering office for 25 years.

From 1979 she ran her Institut de recherches en geobiologie in Chardonne and made a name for herself with her books on “ places of power ”. In it she described her geobiological method with the help of her so-called "biometer", a radiesthetic pendulum , with which "vibrational energies" can be measured in so-called "Bovis units", named after the French physicist Alfred Bovis (1871–1947).

Works (in German)

• Places of power. Little known cosmo-terrestrial energies . Self-published, Chardonne 1984
  • Revised and expanded edition as: Places of Power. Sites of the highest cosmo-terrestrial energy . AT, Aarau 1999, ISBN 3-85502-632-7
• The soul of the place. Their effect on our four bodies . Herold, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-921485-05-3
  • New edition as: The soul of the place. Metaphysical energies and their effectiveness . AT, Aarau 2000, ISBN 3-85502-668-8
• The art of dying. Suicide is not a solution . Herold, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-921485-15-0
• Places of power in Switzerland . AT, Aarau 1998, ISBN 3-85502-631-9

literature

• Andrea Fischbacher: Blanche Merz, a passionate pioneer. The life of the engineer, politician and geobiologist . AT, Aarau 2001, ISBN 3-85502-747-1

Web links

• Literature by and about Blanche Merz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Blanche at Emma . Blanche Merz in the grotto of the healer Emma Kunz . An article by Martin Frischknecht, from tracks No. 60 (summer 2001)