Carl-Friedrich Zimpel

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Carl-Friedrich Zimpel

Carl-Friedrich Zimpel (* 11. December 1801 in Sprottau , Lower Silesia ; † 26. June 1879 in Pozzuoli , Campania ), also known by the name of Charles Franz Zimpel was a Prussian infantry - officer , railway engineers and healers without medical training, became known due to his development of the Zimpelschen healing system of spagyric . He was also a supporter of John Wroe , founder of the Christian Israelite Church .

biography

Zimpel first became an officer, but then worked for various railway administrations and companies in Germany and abroad and received American citizenship. Of course he spoke and wrote not only the English but also the French language. There are many works by him in French in the French National Library. He died on June 26, 1879 in a hotel in Pozzuoli (southern Italy).

Zimpels promotion

Zimpel attended several lectures at the University of Jena as a guest auditor . He subsequently succeeded in becoming a Dr. phil. and Dr. med. to do a doctorate without ever having studied medicine. The philosophy faculty accepted a work on US railroad construction published nine years earlier as a dissertation. A special permit from the State Department allowed the medical school in 1849 to complete Zimpel's doctorate thanks to a 56-page thesis on his own experience with yellow fever during his stay in Louisiana, USA. In Louisiana, he had helped to build a new railway line through a swamp, which caused yellow fever infections among workers. He justified Zimpel's wish for a doctorate, among other things, with the fact that the academic title was an advantage when traveling to oriental countries . Contrary to what various internet sources claim, Zimpel was never a doctor and never had a license to practice medicine or a medical qualification. Zimpel received his doctorate on the condition that he would never work medically in Germany, which is why he relocated his institute to Italy, where he was only allowed to treat foreigners for legal reasons. He circumvented this requirement by leaving the rights to manufacture his remedies to Friedrich Mauch , a pharmacist from Göppingen who manufactured, advertised and sold the remedies.

The "Zimpelsche healing system" of spagyric

Zimpel was considered a supporter of homeopathy . However, he was looking for a universal remedy to cure all diseases and to prolong life, which should be more effective than medicine or homeopathy of the time. In his ideas about his universal remedies, he followed old alchemical concepts. In 1866 he met the Italian Count Cesare Mattei , whose products he tried to fathom and copy. According to Zimpel, extracts of plant origin were created via alchemical manufacturing processes, which were the starting point of Zimpel's spagyric system. Today's procedures "spag. Zimpel", as presented in the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HAB), do not go back to Zimpel. In contrast to the original regulations handed down, these are distillates in which the ash salt from the press residue of the plants used is dissolved. Active ingredients like those found in the products after the original Zimpel process are no longer contained.

Neither for the original Zimpel preparations, nor for today's medicines, which are manufactured using different processes, but misleadingly with the abbreviation "spag. Zimpel." are designated, conclusive proof of effectiveness could be provided. Nevertheless, these agents all enjoy a certain popularity, which led to the establishment of a pharmaceutical company created for this after Zimpel's death. This was the chemical-pharmaceutical factory Müller Göppingen , from which in 1956 today's homeopathic and spagyric-producing Staufen-Pharma and the sister company Müller Göppingen emerged.

About 40 books by Zimpel between 1828 and 1879 can be traced, about half of which have theological content.

Works

Cover of Zimpel's pamphlet Le Millénaire (“The Millennium”) from 1866
  • Formation and management of an infantry company with reference to the Preuss. Inf. Regiment . By Charles Franz Zimpel. Berlin, 1828.
  • The railroad construction of North America, England and other countries . By Carl Friedrich Zimpel. Vienna, Forester, 1840.
  • "Illumination of the Stuttgart train station project" by Professor J. Mährlen, and a report by the civil engineer CF Zimpel . Stuttgart, Köhler, 78 pp., 1844.
  • Contributions to yellow fever . From Dr. Charles Franz Zimpel. Meran, 1850.
  • The Israelites in Jerusalem. A memorandum dedicated to all Israelites, etc. By Charles Franz Zimpel. Stuttgart, 1852.
  • Natural and spiritual conditions of the moon: with an addendum about the magnetic fluid and a foreward about the actual meaning of St. Matth. XXIV, 30 and the spiritual spring . The author who is not named is in fact Jakob Lorber. Provided with a preface and requested to print by Ch.F. Zimpel. Stuttgart, 1852.
  • Guide for aspiring homeopaths . Charles Franz Zimpel. Stuttgart 1852.
  • History of the primordial creation of the world of spirits and senses and the history of the primeval patriarchs, from Adam to Abraham, or the household of God . The author who is not named is in fact Jakob Lorber. Asked for printing by Charles Franz Zimpel, 1852.
  • Plan of Jerusalem with a representation of all the paths which our Lord Jesus Christ returned during His days of suffering ...: Based on the plan of the English naval lieutenants Aldrich u. Seymonds, the historian Flav . Josephus and AC Emmerich . By Charles Franz Zimpel, Edward Aldrich, John Frederick Anthony Symonds, Flavius ​​Josephus, Anna Katharina Emmerich. Stuttgart, 1853.
  • New local topographical lighting of the holy cosmopolitan city of Jerusalem, with special consideration of the days of suffering of our Lord Jesus Christ and the identity of the holy places there: together with instructions for the most comfortable and cheapest trip to Jerusalem . By Charles Franz Zimpel. Stuttgart, Swiss beard, 1853.
  • La Vaccination est non seulement inutile, mais dangereuse. Avertissement adressé à toutes les puissances. ... Traduction fidèle ... munie d'une préface et publiée par CJ Zimpel . In French and English. Pau (France), 1855.
  • What time is it : or sign of the coming of the Lord . By Charles Franz Zimpel. Frankfurt, HL Brönner, 1858.
  • The static electricity in connection with imponderables as a remedy (according to the system of C. Beckensteiner) . Stuttgart 1959
  • The Revelation of St. John's. An attempt to understand this biblical book ... by Dr. CA Berkholz. [With the text.] . By Christian August Berkholz and Charles Franz Zimpel. Riga, 1860.
  • The Sun Woman [ie Joanna Southcott], along with a key to a correct understanding of the Bible, and a table of the Kingdom of God, etc. By Charles Franz Zimpel and Joanna Southcott. In English. Frankfurt, 1861.
  • Self-help for everyone through galvanism and magnetic electricity in the vast majority of both acute and chronic diseases . By Charles Franz Zimpel. In english. Schaffhausen, 1861.
  • Plan d'un chemin de fer de Jaffa in Jerusalem . By Charles Franz Zimpel. In French. Stuttgart, 1865.
  • Exhortation to all Christianity and no less the Jews for the liberation of Jerusalem . From Dr. Charles Franz Zimpel. In German, English and French. Francfort sur le Main, HL Brönner, 1865.
  • Road connection of the Mitelland with the Dead Sea and Damascus via Jerusalem, m. Use of Bethlehem, Hebron, Tiberias, Nazareth etc.: With a tarpaulin . By Charles Franz Zimpel. In German and English. Frankfurt, Brönner. 1865.
  • Railway between the Mediterranean, the Dead Sea, and Damascus, by way of Jerusalem, with branches to Bethlehem, Hebron, Nablous, Nazareth, and Tiberias . By Charles Franz Zimpel. In english. London, 1865.
  • Le Millénaire. Extrait des deux ouvrages du docteur Zimpel: 1. "La XIe heure avec l'Antéchrist, ou Dévoilement du XIe chapitre de Daniel, 2." Explication populaire de l'Apocalypse de saint Jean " . By Charles Franz Zimpel. In French. Francfort -sur-M., C. Winter, 1866.
  • Millenium Zimpli: Excerpt from his: (1.) The eleventh hour with the Antichrist, ...; (2.) Popular declaration of the Revelation of St. John . By Charles Franz Zimpel. Frankfurt, 1866.
  • Prince and Ex-Prince . By Charles Franz Zimpel. Francfort-sur-M., 1867.
  • Vegetable electricity for healing purposes and the homeopathic-vegetable remedies of Count CM Leipzig 1869, p. 81.
  • May the Christian determine the day of the Lord? Biblically illuminated by Chas. F. Zimpel . 19th edition. Frankfurt, self-published by the author, HL Brönner and C. Winter, 1866.
  • Millennium. Zimpels excerpt from his 1st "The XIth Hour with the Antichrist, or unsealing of Dan. XI." at Joh. Frdr. Schalch in Schaffhausen, 1859 ... 2. "[Contemporary] People's Declaration of Revelation St. Johannis", 1860, at Chr. Winter ... in Frankfurt a. M. ... 22nd edition . By Dr Charles Franz Zimpel. Frankfurt am Main, self-published by the author, C. Winter, 1866.
  • May the Christian determine the day of the Lord? Biblically illuminated by CFZ In English. Frankfurt am Main, 1866.
  • The Song of Solomon: with special consideration of the present time and the great importance of ch. 6, 8; Concerning the one, interpreted . By Charles Franz Zimpel. Hamburg, 1868.
  • Who is the One of the Song of Songs? ...; With a prayer of the one and an explanation of the inner contemplation . By Charles Franz Zimpel. Hamburg, self-published by the author, Oucken, 1868.
  • The vegetable electricity for healing purposes and the homeopathic-vegetable remedies of Count Cesare Mattei . By Charles Franz Zimpel and count Cesaro Mattei. In English and German. Leipzig, 1869.
  • The medical treasure. New and old remedies for everyone. With special consideration for the Ars Spagyrica, and its use for the preparation of extraordinary medical secret drugs, along with some remarks about the universal medicine of hermetics . Bern, J. Heuberger, 1870.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Axel Helmstädter: Spagyric Medicines: Pharmacy and Alchemy of Modern Times. Stuttgart: Wiss. Verl.-Ges., 1990, pp. 136-138, pp. 155-163
personal data
SURNAME Zimpel, Carl-Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zimpel, Charles Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German esotericist
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Sprottau , Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1879
Place of death Pozzuoli , Campania , Italy