Joseph Ennemoser

Joseph Ennemoser (15 November 1787 – 19 September 1854) was a South Tyrolean physician and stubborn late proponent of Franz Mesmer's theories of animal magnetism.

[1] Ennemoser, the child of poor parents, was born in Egghof bei Rabenstein (today Moos in Passeier, South Tyrol, Italy) and raised by his grandfather.

From 1813, he was in the Lützow Free Corps as an active leader of a group of Tyrolean marksmen who gained fame at Lauenburg and Jülich.

After the First Treaty of Paris in 1814, he completed his studies in Berlin and became a supporter of Franz Anton Mesmer and his theory of animal magnetism.

In 1819, he became a professor of medicine in Bonn, leaving in 1837 for Innsbruck and then, in 1841, settling in Munich, where he earned a great reputation as a "magnetic physician."