Le Dr Zimpel - Un Personnage Haut en Couleurs

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Carl-Friedrich Zimpel

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'''Carl-Friedrich Zimpel''' (* [[11. Dezember]] [[1801]] in [[Szprotawa|Sprottau]],

[[Niederschlesien]]; [[26. Juni]] [[1879]] in [[Pozzuoli]], [[Kampanien]])

Voirhttp://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl-Friedrich_Zimpel

N le 11 dcembre 1801 Szprotawal/Sprottau et dcd le 26 juin 1879

Pozzuoli/Campanie (Italie).

Suivra un article paru en 1855 dans la Revue Philosophique et Religieuse, qui nous

permet de nous faire une ide ce personnage, officier dinfanterie prussien jusqu

environ 1830 et qui obtint un doctorat de philosophie vers 1849.

Il tait intress par le mesmrisme et ce qui en dcoule, le magntisme,

lhomopathie, sinspirant entre autres des ides du comte italien Cesare Mattei et de

mdecins franais (Dr Beckensteiner Lyon). Il est connu comme linventeur de la

spagyrie, base sur quatre piliers fondamentaux : lalchimie, la philosophie,

lastronomie et la vertu, il a pratiqu sa mdecine entre autre Londres. Il publia

Die vegetabilische Elektrizitt zu Heilswicken und die Homophatisch

vegetabilischen Heilmittel des Grafen C. Mattei Leipzig 1869, autrement dit

llectricit vgtale (!!) pour des pansements (je ne suis pas sre de la traduction

de ce mot) et lhomopathie vgtale du comte C. Mattei .

Il connaissait Justinus Kerner (mdecin) puisque ce fut celui-ci qui lui signala Jakob

Lorber, dont Kerner avait publi un petit livre de faons anonyme en 1851, la suite

de quoi Zimpel rendit visite Lorber et dita quelques textes de Jacob Lorber en

1852, qui furent confisqus et dtruits par les autorits ainsi que le matriel ddition.

Il avait dautres cordes son arc car il se dclare ingnieur constructeur de chemi ns

de fer dans plusieurs pays. Il voyagea aux USA en particulier en Louisiane la

Nouvelle Orlans dont il fit une carte en1834, et fut naturalis citoyen amricain. Ilaccompagna aussi des missions archologiques au Moyen-Orient et en Egypte.

Vers 1850 il devient adepte de John Wro, gourou de la secte Christian-Israelite

Church , ce qui lamnera a tablir un plan dun chemin de fer entre la Mer Rouge et

le port de Jaffa en Palestine, passant par Jrusalem et les Lieux Saints.


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Maintenant quelques informations sur la secte de Wro, qui dont il existe encore de nos jours une

branche en Australie :

Information on John Wroe

Southcott: taking the lid off an article by Frank Smith source unknown

The Southcottians survived despite an over-zealous and well

publicised attempt to walk on water and the grim repercussions of

a fatal circumcision. Besides, they still had, they claimed, Joanna

Southcotts mysterious box. FRANK SMYTH investigates

MELBOURNE HOUSEis a large building of Yorkshire millstone grit, standing

aloof in its own grounds on the lip of the motorway between Wakefield and

Bradford. Its boundary walls bear the hallmarks of early Victorian

squirearchy; neat notices, carved into the grey stone like epitaphs. warn:

No hawkers, No vagrants and, much more alarmingly, Beware man-

traps.

But the house was built by no ordinary country gentleman. John Wroe was

the most bizarre of all Joanna Southcotts eccentric followers - part

buffoon, part terrible patriarch, to quote a contemporary newspaper - but

he had more personal charisma than even Southcott herself. Today

Melbourne House is still known locally as Prophet Wroe s Mansion.

Wroe saw his duties, outlined to him by an angelic guide, as an obligation

to preach to the Jews. In the first eight years of his ministry he traveled

first to Liverpool and then to London, where he delivered a message to

Queen Charlotte, and then went on to Gibraltar, Spain. France, Germany.

Italy, Scotland and Wales. His energy was prodigious, for he traveledmostly on foot, interspersing his foreign trips with bouts of fiery

evangelicalism at home.

His peculiarities grew more noticeable as time passed First he ordered the

Southcottians to discard the names of months, numbering them instead.

Then he began to grow his beard, demanding that all his male disciples do

likewise. He made two - -.

publicised attempts to walk on water - first, F in August 1823, on the river

Aire near

Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds. and secondly, in February of the following rear, on

the Lyne. near Ashton. When his attempts failed hilariously, he hastily

announced that he had been undergoing a public baptis m.

Certainly Wroe had the courage of his strange convictions: on 17 April

1823he was publicly circumcised at a meeting of believers, and was strong

enough to proclaim - and show evidence of - the fact at a packed open-air

meeting at Ashton-under-Lyne the following day. But the incident had


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tragic repercussions. One of his disciples. Henry Lees of Ashton.

circumcised an infant named Daniel Grimshaw, who bled to death as a

result. During the outcry that followed Wroe deemed it politic to disappear

for a fortnight.

But despite the Grimshaw incident - Lees was tried and acquitted of

manslaughter the following March - Ashton-under-Lyne and nearby

Manchester proved for a while to be a goldmine for Prophet Wroe. An

elaborate Sanctuary was furnished for him at Charles-town, in Ashton. by

his followers, and on Christmas Day I82~ a more elaborate one, with a fine

organ, was opened at a cost of 9500. It was designed to resemble a

theatre - indeed for years after Wroes death it the Hippodrome music hall,

and recently was re-opened as the Tameside Theatre - and had an

unclean pew where women accused of unchastitv sat during services.

After the service they were taken to a cleansing room beneath the pulpit.

were they were stripped naked, then whipped by the prophet with a birch

rod. At each cardinal point on the outskirts of the town a square building

was erected, marking the four gates of a temple, planned along the lines ofthe temple at Jerusalem, of which the sanctuary was to form the center.

One of these, in which Wroes trial was held, is now a public house

appropriately named The Odd Whim.

Wroes trial came about as a result of his sexual tendencies, although the

charge of swindler" was also leveled at him. In 1827 a 12-year-old girl.

Martha Whitley. accused him of having had intercourse with her. At first

Wroe denied the charge, but when three years later three more young girls

accused him of sexual interference during the cleansing ceremonies, he

was called to answer. According to the Dictionary of national biographvof

1917, although Wroe was obsessed by sex there is not a tittle of immoral

teaching.

However, after the trial - an unruly proceeding by all account a very

considerable number of (the Southcottians) left him and shaved off their

beards. including Henry Lees, the over-enthusiastic circumciser. Wroe was

never welcome in Ashton again, although for 40 years afterwards many of

his followers were found in the town. They included several shopkeepers,

who wore long straggling beards and tall felt hats, closed their shops for 24

hours from 6p.m. on Fridays, and were known as Joannas.

The charge of swindling was almost certainly true. In 1856, Wroe ordered

his followers to wear gold rings; but although they paid for gold, they were

issued with rings made of brass. And in 1842 when his printing shoo at

Wrenthorpe, Wakefield, was broken into by burglars. Wroe's perjury

convicted three innocent people, a fact that came to light only when the

real culprits were caught five years later.

But the setback at Ashton did not disturb the prophet. His breakaway

group of Southcottians became known as Christian Israelites, and to their


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practices of beards and circumcision Wroe added adherence to a strict

kosher diet.

Beardies down under

In Australia. where Joanna Southcotts influence had already been

vicariously felt. Wroe became hugely popular after his first extended visit in

1843 - his followers there were known as beardies. His Melbourne

congregation collected the 10,000 with which he built Mel bourne House,

dedicating it at sunrise on Whit Sunday 1857. Since the Second World

War it has been an old peoples home.

Wroes final prophecy had the same germ of truth as that of Joanna

Southcott; in the 1840s he had forecast that the Millennium would begin in

1863 - but on 5 February of that year he died suddenly after breaking his

collar bone, at Collingwood, Melbourne, and was buried there.

No portrait exists of Wroe, for unlike Southcott he thought such thingssinful. Possibly his appearance had something to do with the omission, for

he was described as having a savage, haggard look, with a hump back

and very prominent nose - to which was added long shaggy hair and beard

and a big misshapen hat.

There must have been some strange fascination about the man. wrote a

late - Victorian commentator, for his utterances are but fatuous insipidities

with a Biblical twang, having neither the pathetic earnest - of Joanna

Southcott nor the crude originality of her other improver, John Ward.

After Wroes death the Southcottians pursued their beliefs quietly for about

two years.

Pour voir laspect et la faon de se vtir des adeptes (et ce quils sont devenus) aller la page

http://www.houseofdavidmuseum.org/history/index.htm

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