Biography:Viktor Schauberger

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Short description: Austrian forest caretaker and naturalist (1885–1958)
Viktor Schauberger
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Born
Holzschlag, Upper Austria
Died25 September 1958(1958-09-25) (aged 73)
Linz, Austria
NationalityAustrian

Viktor Schauberger (30 June 1885 – 25 September 1958) was an Austrian forest caretaker, naturalist, philosopher, inventor and pseudoscientist.

Early life

Schauberger was born in Holzschlag, Upper Austria on 30 June 1885. His parents were Leopold Schauberger and Josefa, née Klimitsch. From 1891 to 1897 he attended the elementary school in Aigen, then until 1900 the state grammar school in Linz. Until 1904 he went to the forestry school in Aggsbach in the Kartause Aggsbach, where he passed the exam as a forester. From 1904 to 1906 he was forest clerk in Groß-Schweinbarth in Lower Austria.

Films

  • In 1930, "Tragendes Wasser" was filmed, showing the functioning of the log flumes.
  • Nature Was My Teacher, narrated by Tom Brown (1993, Borderland Science Research Foundation) ISBN:0-945685-94-7
  • Sacred Living Geometry: The Enlightened Environmental Theories of Viktor Schauberger, narrated by Callum Coats (1995, Talkstudio)
  • Extraordinary Nature of Water, narrated by Callum Coats (2000, Filmstream)
  • Viktor Schauberger: Comprehend and Copy Nature, directed by Franz Fitzke (2007, Schauberger Verlag) ISBN:978-3-902262-01-1

Books

References

Further reading

  • Andersson, Olof: Living Water: Viktor Schauberger and the Secrets of Natural Energy (2002, Gateway Books, ISBN:9780717133901)
  • Bartholomew, Alick: Hidden Nature: The Startling Insights of Viktor Schauberger (2004, Floris Books, ISBN:978-0863154324)
  • Coats, Callum: Living Energies: An Exposition of Concepts Related to the Theories of Viktor Schauberger (1996, 2001, Gateway Books, ISBN:9780946551972, ISBN:9780717133079)
  • Cobbald, Jane: Viktor Schauberger: A Life of Learning from Nature (2006, Floris Books, ISBN:9780863155697)

External links

  • The Schauberger Family Trust (PKS) maintains an archive with many of Viktor Schauberger's original manuscripts and a small museum with models and prototypes by Viktor Schauberger
  • Institute of Ecological Technology has a research programme on Viktor Schauberger's ideas and inventions
  • Our Senseless Toil - an excerpt of Schauberger's own writing
  • "Die Natur Kapieren und Kopieren" ( Comprehend and Copy Nature, dubbed in English ) Viktor Schauberger documentary film (2008) on Science | Documentaries by wocomoDOCS YouTube channel
  • Viktor Schauberger – Die Natur kapieren und kopieren (German language DVD), Gestaltung: Franz Fitzke, 75 min., Schauberger Verlag, 2008, ISBN:978-3-902262-01-1.
  • "Nature Was My Teacher" The Vision Of Viktor Schauberger a documentary by Tom Brown (1991) ISBN:0-945685-94-7; on sound recordist David Brown's YouTube channel