Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich (15 September 1880, in

Stettin Szczecin ( , , ; ; ; or ) is the capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the German border, it is a major seaport, the largest city of northwestern Poland, and se ...

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Szczecin Szczecin ( , , ; ; ; or ) is the capital city, capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the Poland-Germany border, German border, it is a major port, seaport, the la ...

)28 July 1949, in

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) was a German religious

psychologist A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior. Their work often involves the experimentation, observation, and explanation, interpretatio ...

and

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

. Oesterreich was also interested in

parapsychology Parapsychology is the study of alleged psychic phenomena (extrasensory perception, telepathy, teleportation, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis (also called telekinesis), and psychometry (paranormal), psychometry) and other paranormal cla ...

. He argued against the philosophy of

materialism Materialism is a form of monism, philosophical monism according to which matter is the fundamental Substance theory, substance in nature, and all things, including mind, mental states and consciousness, are results of material interactions. Acco ...

. He was the author of ''Die Besessenheit'' (1921), a book on

demonic possession Spirit Possession is an altered state of consciousness and associated behaviors which are purportedly caused by the control of a human body and its functions by Supernatural#Spirit, spirits, ghosts, demons, angels, or Deity, gods. The concept ...

. It was translated into English in 1966.

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, author of ''

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'', was influenced by the book."Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich"
Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology.

Publications

*''Kant und die Metaphysik'' (Kantstudien, Ergänzungsheft Nr. 2), Berlin 1906; zuvor als Dissertationsdruck: Halle 1905. *''Die deutsche Philosophie in der zweiten Hälfte des XIX. Jahrhunderts'', Tübingen 1910. *''Die Phänomenologie des Ich in ihren Grundproblemen'', Leipzig 1910. *''Die religiöse Erfahrung als philosophisches Problem''. Vortrag gehalten in der Kant-Gesellschaft in Berlin am 14. April 1915, Berlin 1915. *''Einführung in die Religionspsychologie als Grundlage für Religionsphilosophie und Religionsgeschichte'', Berlin 1917. *''Das Weltbild der Gegenwart'', Berlin 1920; 2. Aufl. Berlin 1925. *''Die Besessenheit'', Langensalza 1921. *''Der Okkultismus im modernen Weltbild'', Dresden 1921. *''Die Philosophie des Auslandes vom Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts bis auf die Gegenwart''. Überwegs Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie, Fünfter Teil. Berlin 1923, bearbeitet von Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich.
''Occultism and Modern Science''
(1923) *''Die philosophische Bedeutung der mediumistischen Phänomene''. Erweiterte Fassung des auf dem Zweiten Internationalen Kongress für parapsychologische Forschung in Warschau gehaltenen Vortrags, Stuttgart 1924. *''Grundbegriffe der Parapsychologie. Eine Philosophische Studie'', Pfullingen 1931. *''Possession: Demoniacal and Other among Primitive Races, in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Modern Times'' (1966)

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* * 1880 births 1949 deaths Parapsychologists Writers from Szczecin People from the Province of Pomerania German male writers 20th-century German philosophers {{Germany-philosopher-stub