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Walter Siegmeister
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Biography
Publications
References
External links
Biography
Early life
Walter was born into a family of Russian Jews in Manhattan, New York City. [5]
His parents were William Siegmeister (May 1877 - September 1, 1932) and
Rebecca "Bessie" Gitler (Gittler) (February 25, 1880 - October 27, 1968), [6]
who were both born in Russia. Walter's father William emigrated to the United
States in July 1893,[7] and he became a naturalized citizen in the Superior
Court, New York County (Manhattan) on October 29, 1902.[7] Walter's parents
William and Bessie are both buried in the Mount Lebanon Cemetery in
Glendale, Queens County, New York.[8] Walter's father was a surgeon who
started out as a student of biochemistry in Germany. Walter had a brother
named Elie Siegmeister (1909-1991) who was a famous American composer.
Walter graduated from Columbia University in 1924, and received his Masters
(1930) and Ph.D (1932) degrees in education from New York University. [5] His
Ph.D thesis was titled Theory and Practice of Dr. Rudolf Steiner's Pedagogy
(New York University, School of Education, 1932) (typed manuscript, v + 320
pages). Under the name Bernard, Walter later settled in Florida. [5]
Contemporaries
Siegmeister wrote of his search for the safest place on Earth from radioactive
fallout in order to build a paradise.[5] The idea was later developed in the
writings of Johnny Lovewisdom and then Viktoras Kulvinskas.[5]
Siegmeister went to Ecuador in 1941 where he met John Wierlo (Johnny
Lovewisdom) who had arrived in 1940, where they spoke of plans for a
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Publications
Apollonius the Nazarene: the life and teachings of the unknown world
teacher of the rst century. Lorida, Fla.: New Age Publications, 1945.[11]
Escape from Destruction: How to Survive in an Atomic Age''. Mokelumne
Hill, CA: Health Research, 1956.[5]
Flying Saucers from the Earth's Interior''. Mokelumne Hill, CA: Health
Research, 1960.[5]
The Hollow Earth''. New York: Carol Publishing, 1969 [1964].[5]
Creation of the Superman. Mokelumne Hill, CA: Health Research, 1970.[5]
References
1. http://www.ourhollowearth.com
/Bernard/WorksList.htm
2. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903
/1:1:2W43-Q6V
3. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903
/1:1:M5Q1-H9K
4. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903
/1:1:KX2M-HPH
5. Brad Whitsel (2001). Walter
Siegmeister's Inner-Earth Utopia
(http://www.jstor.org/stable
/20718317). Utopian Studies 12 (2):
82-102. (subscription required)
6. http://sortedbyname.com/mobile
/pages/s155875.html (scroll down
the page until you arrive at
"Siegmeister, Bessie")
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7. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903
/1:1:QV5Y-YHNV (Passport
Application of Rebecca Siegmeister click on "View the original
document")
8. http://www.ndagrave.com/cgi-bin
/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSiman=1&
GScid=65349&GSfn=&
GSln=siegmeister
9. J. M. Sheppard, "Disaster in
Paradise" (https://news.google.com
/newspapers?id=dC1QAAAAIBAJ&
sjid=lw0EAAAAIBAJ&
pg=6075,1444027&
dq=walter+siegmeister&hl=en),
The American Weekly in The
Milwaukee Sentinel, December 24,
1944, p. 17.
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q=%22Walter%20Siegmeister%22&
f=false) at Google Books.
11. Search results for 'au:"Walter
Siegmeister"'
(http://www.worldcat.org
/search?q=au
%3A%22Walter+Siegmeister%22&
qt=results_page) Worldcat. Accessed
August 2013.
External links
The Memory Palace, history podcast episode: "The World Within the
World" (http://thememorypalace.us/2009/03/episode-8/)
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org
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Categories: People in alternative medicine American medical researchers
American non-ction writers Esotericists 1901 births 1965 deaths
20th-century American writers
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