Friederike Hauffe

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The Prevorst seer in deep sleep . Oil painting by Gabriel von Max (1892)
Friederike Hauffe's grave in the forest cemetery in Löwenstein

Friederike Hauffe (born September 23, 1801 in Prevorst ; † August 25, 1829 in Löwenstein ; born Friederike Wanner) became known as the seer of Prevorst .

Friederike Wanner was the daughter of the Prevorst district forester. In her youth, when she was described as healthy and lively, she spent a lot of time with her grandfather Schmidgall in Löwenstein. From the age of 17 to 19 she lived with her parents in Oberstenfeld. In 1821 she married the merchant Gottlieb Hauffe from Kürnbach , who was her cousin. They had two children together. While business trips took her husband through southwest Germany, around 1825 Friederike, who lived in Kürnbach, showed symptoms of a "demon and ghost obsession". She is said to have perceived voices and light phenomena and predicted later events.

From 25 November 1826 to treated her death district doctor Justinus Kerner , of the Jew's harp virtuoso Karl Eulenstein was connected, its as somnambulism diagnosed disease using the methods of magnetic lines of the magnetic therapy of Franz Anton Mesmer , giving her on, among others, a Jew's harp played or magnetized their drinking water with the help of the jew's harp.

Friederike Hauffe spent the last two years of her life in Kerner's house in Weinsberg , which became a destination for strangers and acquaintances: Franz von Baader , Joseph Görres , Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling , Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert , Johann Karl Passavant , Friedrich Schleiermacher and Karl August von Wangenheim .

Kerner's medical report The Seer of Prevorst , written in the form of a novel and published in 1829, became a bestseller of its time. A comparable case is said to have occurred in Möttlingen (Gottliebin Dittus) in 1842 ( see Johann Christoph Blumhardt ).

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SURNAME Hauffe, Friederike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wanner, Friederike (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Seer from Prevorst, patient Justinus Kerners
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Prevorst
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1829
Place of death Lion's Arch