Schaefer, Hans (1906-)
Schaefer, Hans (1906-)
Physiologist, director of the Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Germany, who has also written on parapsychology. He was born on August 13, 1906, in Düsseldorf, Germany, and studied at the University of Bonn (M.D., 1931). He held teaching positions beginning in 1935 at the University of Bonn (1935-40), the Kerckhoff Foundation, Bad Nauheim (1940-41), Giessen University (1941-50), and at Heidelberg University after 1950. He was an editor of Medizin, Theorie and Klinik, a winner of the Adolf Fick Prize in Physiology (1944), and an honorary life member of New York Academy of Sciences.
Sources:
Pleasants, Helene, ed. Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology. New York: Helix Press, 1964.
Schaefer, Hans. "Ist die Existenz Parapsychologischer Phènomene Bewiesen?" (Have Parapsychological Phenomena Been Proved?) Münchner Medizinische Wochenschrift 99 (1957).
——. "Parapsychologie." Arztliche Praxis 3, no. 48 (1951).
——. "Telepathie und Hellshehen" (Telepathy and Clairvoyance). Die Umschau 52 (1952).