Friedrich Fellenberg (life reformer)

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Friedrich Fellenberg , also Fellenberg-Egli (born October 11, 1867 , † June 9, 1952 ) was a German-Swiss life reformer.

Life

Friedrich Fellenberg grew up as the son of Albert Fellenberg (1838–1913) and Mina geb. Stender († 1915) in Opladen (district of Solingen). Having suffered from breasts at a young age, Fellenberg is said to have managed to restore his health by following the teachings of the naturopath Heinrich Lahmann . As a result, he gave up his job at an insurance company and worked for Sebastian Kneipp in Wörishofen and Lahmann in Dresden .

In 1892 Fellenberg founded the vegetarian restaurant Pomona in Zurich , which he ran with his sister. He was also a co-founder of the Heimgarten fruit growing cooperative in Bülach, which was founded in 1893 . In 1895 he married Louise Egli from Hittnau. The couple's children Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf (1899) and Waltraut Dorothea Anna (1908) were born in Erlenbach.

In 1898 he founded Fellenbergs Naturheilanstalt in Erlenbach . In the same year he became vice president of the Naturheilverein Zürich, after he had previously been the club's treasurer. In 1906 he became the first chairman of the newly founded «Vegetarian Society Zurich».

After the closure of his naturopathic institute, he opened a medicinal bath (Herbazidbad) in Zurich at Selnaustrasse 3.Fellenberg published various writings and in 1901/1902 published the monthly Heimatsklänge as a monthly for vegetarian-social health care on a Christian basis (since No. 2 monthly for Vegetarian-social health care ), for which he was also responsible for a large part of the contributions.

Franz Kafka , who was a guest at his Erlenbach sanatorium in September 1911, mentions Fellenberg in the course of his comments on physiognomics.

Publications (selection)

  • The Heimgarten colony. History of origin, career and reasons for the decay. Berlin 1908.
  • Anemia, enema, and obesity. Erlenbach 1902.
  • The most common uses of naturopathic medicine for home use. Lecture. 1902.
  • The Golden age. 1902.
  • Light, air and sun baths. Erlenbach 1901.

literature

  • Rebecca Niederhauser: "Cozy evenings, lectures and discussions" - Friedrich Fellenberg-Egli and the Vegetarian Society Zurich around 1900. In: Tierisch! The animal and science - a foray through the disciplines (Zürcher Hochschulforum Volume 55), 2016, pp. 73–82.
  • Sabina Roth: In the dispute over healing knowledge. Zurich naturopathic associations at the beginning of the 20th century. In: Swiss Society for Economic and Social History = Société suisse d'histoire économique et sociale , 2011, 9 (9), pp. 111-137. on-line
  • Hartmut Binder : Kafka's world: a life chronicle in pictures. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2008, pp. 235, 243.
  • Rebecca Niederhauser: "Have fun with vegetables and fruit and toast in water?" Vegetarianism in Zurich. In: Swiss Archives for Folklore , 1991, 107 (1), pp. 1–34. on-line

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Kuprecht: The Fellenberg Natural Healing Institution. In: Karl Kuprecht, Walter Imhof: Erlenbach. History of a Lake Zurich community. Erlenbach 1981. p. 56.
  2. ^ Note on Fellenberg's 70th birthday, in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 11, 1937, sheet 3, no. 1821.
  3. ↑ Elisabeth Lack: Kafka's Moving Bodies - The Diaries and Letters as Laboratories of Movement. (Dissertation, Free University of Berlin.) Fink, Munich 2009, p. 80. online
personal data
SURNAME Fellenberg, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fellenberg-Egli, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss life reformer
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1867
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1952