Wallace Wattles
Wallace D. Wattles
Wallace Delois Wattles (* 1860 , † 1911 ) was an American writer in the field of the Neugeist movement (English New Thought Movement ). In particular, his 1910 work The Science of Getting Rich (" The Science of Getting Rich ") gained new popularity in 2006 after Rhonda Byrne named it in an interview as the source of inspiration for her film The Secret .
Wattles was born in 1860, shortly before the outbreak of the American Civil War, to a gardener and a housewife. He initially worked as a farm worker. During the Christmas season of 1896, at the age of 36, Wattles attended a conference at which he was confronted with a kind of Christian socialism . He began to write and became one of the major writers of the American New Thought Movement .
literature
- Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Getting Rich . Translation: Ralf Löffler. Rabaka Verlag, 2008
Web links
- Literature by and about Wallace Wattles in the catalog of the German National Library
- Newsweek interview with Rhonda Byrne
- The science of getting rich (German version, PDF file, 0.9 MB)
- The Science of Getting Rich (PDF file; 215 kB)
- The Science of Being Well
- The Science of Being Great
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wattles, Wallace |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wattles, Wallace Delois |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer in the field of the New Spirit movement |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1860 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1911 |