Un aventurier intellectuel sous la Restauration el la monarchie de juillet : le docteur Koreff (1783-1851)

Martin, Marietta [1902-1944]

Verlag: Lib. Edouard Champion, Paris, 1925

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24x16cm, vii,169 pages., Contemporary binder's blind boards. Spine edges rubbed. Some page browning. Series: Bibliothèque de la Revue de littérature comparée, t. 20. Frontispiece accompanied by transparent guard sheet with key. Biography of David Ferdinand Koreff [".,.a personal doctor of Staatskanzler Karl August von Hardenberg and occupied one of the two chairs for animal magnetism created in 1817 at the University of Berlin. A personal friend of E.T.A. Hoffmann and a member of his literary club The Serapion Brethren (Serapionsbrüder), Koreff authored a treatise "Über die Erscheinungen des Lebens und über die Gesetze, nach denen es im menschlichen Organismus sich offenbart" and a volume of lyric poetry "Lyrische Gedichte" (published in Paris in 1815). A year after Hoffmann s death in 1822, Koreff moved to Paris to become the most celebrated authority on animal magnetism for the French literary world. His connections included Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, père, Musset, Mérimée, Chateaubriand, Balzac, Stendhal, Benjamin Constant and Heinrich Heine." - wikipedia]. Spine label. Rubberstamps to half-title and title. Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 031303

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Titel: Un aventurier intellectuel sous la ...

Verlag: Lib. Edouard Champion, Paris

Erscheinungsdatum: 1925

Einband: boards