Fanny Moser

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Fanny Moser

Fanny Moser (born May 27, 1872 in Badenweiler ; † February 24, 1953 in Zurich ) was a Swiss zoologist and parapsychologist .

Life

Moser was a daughter of the watch manufacturer Heinrich Moser and his second wife Fanny, geb. Sulzer-Wart (1848-1925). She grew up together with her sister, the later women's rights activist Mentona Moser , first in Karlsruhe , then near Zurich and, from 1888, on the Au peninsula in Wädenswil .

Moser received his doctorate in 1902 and then worked at the research station for marine biology in Naples .

In 1903 she married the Czech musician and composer Jaroslav Hoppe (* July 6, 1878 Kremsier , † February 11, 1926 there), who, cared for by her, died in 1926 after a serious illness. Moser then lived first in Munich and from 1943 in Zurich.

In February 1914 she took part as a guest in a private séance of a female Berlin medium , at which she - according to her own statement - witnessed a spectacular table levitation . Thereupon Moser devoted herself to the critical source collection of parapsychological phenomena until the end of her life .

Moser left her extensive parapsychological library as well as a considerable part of her basic assets to the Institute for Border Areas of Psychology and Mental Hygiene (IGPP) in Freiburg under Hans Bender ("Moser Foundation").

Works

  • Siphonophores in a new representation (1921), an award-winning publication from the Prussian Academy of Science.
  • Occultism - Deceptions and Facts (2 volumes, 1935); Reprinted under the title The great book of occultism , Walter, Olten 1980, ISBN 3-530-57900-9 .
  • Spooky Misbelief or true belief? A question of humanity . With a preface by Carl Gustav Jung (1950).

literature

  • Oscar Wanner: Moser, Fanny. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • Gebhard Frei: In memory of Dr. Fanny Moser , in: New Science. Journal for Border Areas of the Soul , Vol. 3 (1952), Issue 8/9, pp. 269–272 ( online )
  • Oscar Wanner: Fanny Moser , in: Schaffhauser Contributions to History. Biographies Volume IV . 58th year 1981, pp. 163–172 ( PDF, with photo, 414 kB )
  • Roger Balsiger, Ernst Kläy: With Shah Emir and Khan: Henri Moser Charlottenfels 1844–1923 , Meier, Schaffhausen 1992, ISBN 978-3-85801-092-6

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography of Jaroslav Hoppe (Czech)
  2. ↑ Fanny Moser later described the incident in her book " The Occult - Deceptions and Facts "; the report is online here as an excerpt

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personal data
SURNAME Moser, Fanny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss zoologist and parapsychologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Badenweiler
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1953
Place of death Zurich