Gustav Mesmer, Icarus of Lauteral A Magazine social habits and simple usages

social habits and simple usages

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Gustav Mesmer, Icarus of Lauteral A Magazine social habits and simple usagesGustav Mesmer, the Icarus of Lautertal, as he came to be called, was born in the village of Altshausen in Germany, in 1903. He left school early to work on farms as an indentured child labourer. Then he spent six years in a Benedictine monastery before falling ill and was sent away. He was eventually diagnosed with gradually progressing schizophrenia and was locked up in Bad Schussenried mental hospital where he worked as a basket weaver and