ENNEMOSER, JOSEPH, known as a medico-philosophic writer, was b. 15th Nov., 1787, at Hintersee, in the -Tyrol, and commenced his academic studies at Innsbruck in 1806. On the rising of the Tyrolese against the,French in 1809, E. followed Andreas Ilofer as his secretary, and honorably distinguished himself in battle on several occa sions. At the close of the war, he went to Erlangen, and subsequently to Vienna, for the purpose of concluding his studies. Here, however, he experiences the greatest difficulty in procuring the means of subsistence, but fortunately fell in with a merchant from Altona, in whose company he traveled for some time. When Napoleon declared war against Russia in 1812, E. was despatched to England, to solicit aid for the Tyrolese in their meditated insurrection against the French domination. He was after wards appointed by Friedrich Wilhelm III., king of Prussia, an officer in a regiment of volunteers, and soon gathered about him a company of Tyrolese marksmen, who were of great service during the campaigns of 1813 and 1814. After the peace of Paris, E.
went to Berlin, where he finished his curriculum, and in 1816, took his degree of doc tor of medicine. In 1819, he was made professor of medicine at the new university of Bonn, where he lectured on anthropology, physical therapeutics, and pathology. A love of his native country induced him to settle as a physician in Innsbruck, but in 1841 he went to Munich, where he obtained a great reputation by the application of magnet ism as a curative power.., Among,his writings,may be mentioned,,per Magnetismus in seiner geschichtli,chen w]+klit s rOckMcd hiS%principal work; Historisch-psych,ologische Untersuchungen Uber den Ursprung and das Wesen der Illensch lichen Seele (Bonn, 1824); Anthropologische Ansichten zur bessern Kenntnisz des Menschen (Bonn, 1828); Der Magnetismus imVerhiatnisz zur Natur and Religion (Stuttg. 1842); Der Geist des Menschen in der Nstur (Stuttg. 1849); Was ist die Cholera (2d edit., Stuttg. 1850); and Anleitung zur Mesmer'schen Praxis (Stuttg. 1852). He died in 1854.