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Sketches from my boyhood by Justinus Kerner / translated from the German with an introduction by Harold B. Segel.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kerner, Justinus Andreas Christian, 1786-1862.
- Kerner, Justinus Andreas Christian.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (205 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Swabian German Romantic poet, medical doctor, scientist, and investigator of parapsychological phenomena Justinus Kerner (1786-1862) has long been celebrated as one of the leading intellectuals of his time. His renowned study of a local clairvoyant, Die Seherin von Prevorst [The Seeress of Prevorst] (1829), was translated into English as early as 1845 by the English writer, Catherine Crowe. Encouraged by the Romantic interest in childhood, Kerner in later life wrote a book of youthful reminiscences under the title Bilderbuch aus meiner Knabenzeit [Sketches from My Boyhood] (1849). Inspired
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 21, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 9781443883344
- 1443883344
- OCLC:
- 924631869
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