Two icons of alternative science and minor German Forteans.
Ernst Fuhrmann was born 19 November 1886 in Hamburg Germany. Apparently he was born to a well-off family, which allowed him ample free time to follow his passions.
He is most famous for having founded a holistic form of biological sciences called ‘Biosophy’—this was in the years prior to World War I, when holism was important to German sciences. He was also a renowned photographer, publisher, and poet. His ideas had a mystical bent. He emphasized the need to reuse waste—compost—in agriculture, as a reflection of an eternal cycle, and also that animals and plants express the same vital substance in different ways; his photographs of plants was meant to bring out their animalistic aspects.
Fuhrmann had some association with the Nazis; but, according to Oliver A. I. Botar, he was “ambivalent at best.” By the mid-1930s, he was apparently being persecuted by the fascist regime, and in 1938 emigrated to New York, leaving behind an extensive estate.
Ernst Fuhrmann was born 19 November 1886 in Hamburg Germany. Apparently he was born to a well-off family, which allowed him ample free time to follow his passions.
He is most famous for having founded a holistic form of biological sciences called ‘Biosophy’—this was in the years prior to World War I, when holism was important to German sciences. He was also a renowned photographer, publisher, and poet. His ideas had a mystical bent. He emphasized the need to reuse waste—compost—in agriculture, as a reflection of an eternal cycle, and also that animals and plants express the same vital substance in different ways; his photographs of plants was meant to bring out their animalistic aspects.
Fuhrmann had some association with the Nazis; but, according to Oliver A. I. Botar, he was “ambivalent at best.” By the mid-1930s, he was apparently being persecuted by the fascist regime, and in 1938 emigrated to New York, leaving behind an extensive estate.