Sketches from my boyhood by Justinus Kerner / translated from the German with an introduction by Harold B. Segel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Segel, Harold B., 1930-2016, translator, writer of introduction.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kerner, Justinus Andreas Christian, 1786-1862.

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