Emil Mattiesen

Emil Karl Gustav Alfred Mattiesen (born January 11 ^{. Jul} / 23. January 1875 ^greg. In Tartu ; † 25. September 1939 in Rostock ) was a Baltic German musician, music teacher, composer and philosopher. He emerged as the author of a fundamental work on parapsychology .

Life

Emil Mattiesen was the son of Emil Karl Johann Mattiesen (1835–1888), chief editor and city councilor of Dorpat and his wife Emilie von Strümpell (1846–1917). His grandfather was the philosopher and educator Ludwig von Strümpell . He attended the Kollmann'sche private educational institution in Dorpat. At the age of 16 he received musical lessons for the first time. He passed his Abitur in 1892 at the state high school in Mitau . He studied philosophy, natural sciences and music first from 1892 in Dorpat, 1893/94 at the University of Leipzig . After a break due to illness in the autumn of 1894, he resumed his studies in January 1895, first in Dorpat and from October 1895 back in Leipzig, where he received his doctorate in November 1896. phil. received his doctorate. From 1898 to 1903 he traveled through Asia and America, learned some Asian languages and studied the Indian religions . Emil Mattiesen then studied in Cambridge and London from 1904 to 1908 . After returning to Germany in 1908, he lived in Berlin . Here he married Eleonore Bühring in 1913 and primarily occupied himself with music, which until then he had only played off the cuff. He spent a few years in Fürstenfeldbruck . In 1921 he founded an association to distribute his works in Munich. In 1925 he moved to the tranquil town of Gehlsdorf , today a district of Rostock . In 1929 he received a teaching position for church music at the theological faculty of the University of Rostock . Emil Mattiesen composed songs and ballads, chamber and organ music.

In addition to his musical work, Mattiesen dealt with parapsychological research. His two main works The Beyond Man (1925, 825 pages) and The personal survival of death (3 volumes, 1936/39, 456 + 438 + 385 pages) remained unmatched in the German-speaking area for a long time due to their scope and thoroughness. With his magnum opus The personal survival of death Mattiesen represented the so-called. "Survival hypothesis", that is, he gave numerous phenomena that one in his view, survival of the soul after death empirically proven. The evidence used by him includes ghost apparitions , media announcements, materializations , so-called cross correspondence and book tests and the like. a. Due to the negative attitude of the National Socialists to parapsychology, this work was initially deprived of its effect in Germany.

Mattiesen died of leukemia shortly after the outbreak of World War II .

Works

Compositions

(all published by CF Peters , Leipzig)

Five Ballads from Death for voice (preferably baritone or mezzo-soprano) and piano op.1 (1910)
Twelve Poems for Voice and Piano Op. 2 (Book I, No. 1–6: medium and high; Book II, No. 7–12: deep) (1913)
Eight songs and chants for voice and piano op. 3 (Book I, No. 1–4: medium and high; Book II, No. 5–8: medium and low)
Welcome and Farewell to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe for tenor and piano op.4
Artist devotions , Book I (No. 1–4) for high and medium voice and piano op. 5 (1920)
Artist devotions , Book II (No. 5–8) for medium and low voice and piano op. 6 (1920)
Four cheerful songs for high and medium voice and piano op.7
Seven songs based on poems by Ricarda Huch for voice and piano op. 8 (Book I, No. 1–3: high; Book II, No. 4–7: medium and low) (1920)
Twelve Love Songs of Hafiz in Georg Friedrich Daumers paraphrase for voice and piano, Op. 9 (1920)
Ballads of Love for voice and piano op.10 (1920)
Silent Songs , Book I op.11 (1922)
Silent Songs , Book II op.12 (1922)
Zwiegesänge zur Nacht for a female and a male middle voice with piano accompaniment op.13 (1925)
From pain. Five poems for voice and piano op.14 (1930)
Overcoming. Seven poems for voice and piano op.15
The pilgrim. A song cycle for voice and piano op.16 (1928)
Eight tender songs for voice and piano op.17 (1927)

Research on parapsychology

1925 The otherworldly man. An Introduction to the Metapsychology of Mystical Experience . 1987 unaltered reprint in Walter de Gruyter-Verlag Berlin - New York online
1936–39 The personal survival of death. A presentation of the evidence of experience (3 volumes). 1961 new edition with a foreword by Gebhard Frei, 1987 new edition with a foreword by Eberhard Bauer, both published by Walter de Gruyter-Verlag Berlin - New York

Other publications

1897 On philosophical criticism by Locke and Berkeley (dissertation)
1926 The Kunstkasse in Neukloster. A story and an appeal in Mecklenburgische Monatshefte

literature

Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 6416 .
Werner F. Bonin: Lexicon of parapsychology and its border areas. Bern, Munich 1976, p. 328.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Date of birth according to the curriculum vitae in his dissertation
↑ Dr. Emil Mattiesen (1875-1939) - with excerpts from an obituary by Dr. Rudolf Tischner
↑ For the entire section cf. Eberhard Bauer, Foreword to the 1987 special edition of The Personal Survival of Death , esp. Pp. V – XII.

personal data
SURNAME	Mattiesen, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mattiesen, Emil Karl Gustav Alfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Baltic composer and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH	January 23, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dorpat
DATE OF DEATH	September 25, 1939
Place of death	Rostock

[1] Date of birth according to the curriculum vitae in his dissertation

[2] Dr. Emil Mattiesen (1875-1939) - with excerpts from an obituary by Dr. Rudolf Tischner

[3] For the entire section cf. Eberhard Bauer, Foreword to the 1987 special edition of The Personal Survival of Death , esp. Pp. V – XII.