Waldemar von Wasielewski

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Waldemar von Wasielewski (born December 10, 1875 in Bonn , † February 28, 1959 in Sondershausen ) was a German writer with a focus on occultism , Goethe research and music history .

Waldemar von Wasielewski

Life

Waldemar von Wasielewski was born on December 10, 1875 as the son of Königl. Music director and music historian Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski (1822–1896) was born in Bonn. After studying natural sciences , literary history , art history and philosophy at the Universities of Bonn and Berlin, he received his doctorate in 1899. phil. in botany . He then completed his habilitation at the University of Rostock ( private lecturer from 1899 to 1905).

In his work as a freelance writer, he devoted himself to music-historical topics as well as questions of Goethe research and above all occultism . In 1909 a volume of his poetry was published by Piper , Munich.

His first encounters with the field of occultism date back to 1912. Particularly noteworthy here is the reading of the book The Survival of Man by Sir Oliver Lodge (1851–1940), in which phenomena of mental transmission ( telepathy ) are reported. In his earliest publication on this topic, What must everyone know about Occultism (1915), Waldemar von Wasielewski endeavored to deal scientifically with occult phenomena.

In 1916 he married Maria von Bloedau (1883–1963), whose ability of psychic transmissions helped him to deepen his telepathic studies.

As a consequence of this need to scientifically interpret or even substantiate occult phenomena, von Wasielewski's main work Telepathy and Clairvoyance is to be considered. In it, telepathic abilities are critically examined by means of strictly scientific test arrangements, especially with his future wife Maria von Bloedau. These were confirmed by the doctor and parapsychologist Rudolf Tischner (1879–1961), who attended some of the experiments.

A correspondence between Rainer Maria Rilke and Waldemar von Wasielewski took place as a reaction of the poet to the reading of Telepathy and Clairvoyance shortly after the completion of his Duinese elegies .

Waldemar von Wasielewski died on February 28, 1959 in Sondershausen.

Works (selection)

  • Theoretical and experimental contributions to the knowledge of Amitose , Leipzig (1902).
  • Goethe and the Descending Doctrine , Frankfurt (1903).
  • Robert Schumann, Eine Biographie , Leipzig (1906). (Revised edition of the work of the same name by WJ v. Wasielewski)
  • Artur Volkmann, An Introduction to His Work , Munich Leipzig (1908).
  • The rainbow , poems, Piper Munich (1909).
  • Goethe's meteorological studies , Leipzig (1910).
  • What should everyone know about Occultism , Leipzig (1915).
  • Telepathy and clairvoyance, experiments and reflections on unusual mental abilities , Halle (1921).
  • Introduction to Goethe's scientific writings, on the theory of colors in: Goethe's works, Berlin (1927).
  • The violin and its masters , Leipzig (1927). (Revised edition of the work of the same name by WJ v. Wasielewski)
  • Goethe's marriage , in: Goethe's marriage in letters, Potsdam (1936).
  • Remote viewing, attempts and considerations on skills such as telepathy and clairvoyance , Leipzig (2006). ISBN 978-3-89094-491-3 (unchanged edition under the new title of Telepathy and Clairvoyance )

Literature (selection)

  • Rudolf Tischner: On Telepathy and Clairvoyance, Experimental Theoretical Investigations , Munich (1920)
  • Erich H. Müller: German Music Dictionary , Dresden (1929)
  • Richard Baerwald: Mind Reading and Clairvoyance , Berlin (1933)
  • Alfred Winterstein: Telepathy and Clairvoyance in the Light of Modern Research and Scientific Criticism , Vienna (1948)
  • Werner F. Bonin: Lexicon of Parapsychology and its Border Areas , Bern and Munich (1976)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Genealogical handbook of the nobility : Noble houses B, Vol. 26 , CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (2006)
  2. ↑ cf. M. Richter: Literature on Goethe's theory of colors , Berlin (1938)
  3. ↑ see Werner F. Bonin: Lexikon der Parapsychologie / Scherz Verlag , Bern and Munich (1976)
  4. ↑ cf. Leaves of the Rilke Society, Vol. 24: Rainer Maria Rilke's correspondence with Waldemar von Wasielewski Insel Verlag , Frankfurt and Leipzig (2002)
personal data
SURNAME Wasielewski, Waldemar von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1959
Place of death Sondershausen