Bauer, Eberhard (1944-)

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Bauer, Eberhard (1944-)

Eberhard Bauer, leading German parapsychologist, is a professor of psychology at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Bauer emerged in the period of recovery of German psychical research after World War II and became the leading German historian of parapsychology. In 1981 he led in the founding of the Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Parapsychologie, the first successful academic parapsychology organization in the post-Nazi era. He also became the managing editor of Zeitschrift für Parapsychologie und Grenzgebiete der Parapsychologie, the leading parapsychological journal published in Germany. For Bauer's accomplishments as a historian and as a researcher in psychokinesis (PK ), the Society for Psychical Research in England has made him a corresponding member.

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Bauer, Eberhard. "Criticism and Controversies in Parapsychology." European Journal of Parapsychology 5 (1984): 141.

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