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Ur-Medizin: Die wahren Ursprünge unserer Volksheilkunde
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- GenresNature
Hardcover
Published September 15, 2015
About the author
Wolf-Dieter Storl
71 books126 followersBorn in Saxony, Germany in 1942 with a green thumb and the gift of writing, and emigrating with his parents to the United States in 1954, cultural anthropologist and ethno-botanist Wolf Dieter Storl has had a special connection to nature since childhood. His specific area of research is shamanism and healing in traditional societies with a focus on the role of plants in all aspects of life, including sacred symbolism, magic, medicine, foods, and poisons. He has pursued this interest in many parts of the world.
After finishing his PhD in Anthropology (magna cum lauda) on a Fulbright scholarship in 1974 in Berne, Switzerland, he taught anthropology and sociology in Grants Pass, OR. During this time he also offered an organic gardening course that was extremely popular. He was one of the pioneers of the organic/biodynamic gardening movement. While preparing for his doctoral exams in Switzerland he also lived in an experimental community and helped tend a five-acre organic garden. There he had the good fortune to learn from master gardener, Manfred Stauffer who specialized in composting any organic matter.
Storl is also an avid traveler and has gathered much experience observing nature around the entire globe and spending time with people who are very connected to the nature that surrounds them. From1982 -83, he spent a year as an official visiting scholar at the Benares Hindu University, in Varanasi, India. After returning to the United States in 1984, he spent much time with traditional medicine persons of the Cheyenne and taught courses at Sheridan College in Sheridan, Wyoming. He has traveled and conducted research in South Asia, India, Mexico, the Canary Islands, South Africa, and much of Europe, pursuing ehtnobotanical and ethnomedicinal interests. He has written some twenty-five books and many articles in German and English, which have been translated into various languages, such as English, Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Japanese, Danish, Lithuanian, Latvian, and Czech. Storl is a frequent guest on German, Swiss and Austrian television and has also appeared on BBC.
After another visit in India and Nepal in 1986, he and his wife moved to Germany where he began to write books as a freelance writer and offer freelance lectures. He lives with his family on an old estate in the foothills of the Alps where he has a large garden.
Storl’s books are unique in that he does not treat nature only with cold objectivism. He is able to delve into nature's depths and supports his experience with ancient lore from all over the world that has been, for the most part, left on the wayside in the wake of objective science. He theorizes that science is not always as objective as it claims to be. He invites his readers on a journey into a world of nature that is completely alive and has its own rhyme and reason. Myths and lore from many cultures also have a prominent place in his writings, as he claims that the images portrayed in this way often tell us more about the true nature of things than dry facts can do.
Credentials:
MA from Kent State University, instructor there from 1967 – 1969 in anthropology and sociology.
PhD in Anthropology (magna cum lauda) from University of Berne Switzerland, Fulbright scholarship, 1974.
Organic, biodynamic gardener since 1970. First book, Culture and Horticulture from organic gardening course notes of three years on request of students.
Since 1986 freelance author living in Germany with family.
Wolf D. Storl also writes in German as Wolf-Dieter Storl
After finishing his PhD in Anthropology (magna cum lauda) on a Fulbright scholarship in 1974 in Berne, Switzerland, he taught anthropology and sociology in Grants Pass, OR. During this time he also offered an organic gardening course that was extremely popular. He was one of the pioneers of the organic/biodynamic gardening movement. While preparing for his doctoral exams in Switzerland he also lived in an experimental community and helped tend a five-acre organic garden. There he had the good fortune to learn from master gardener, Manfred Stauffer who specialized in composting any organic matter.
Storl is also an avid traveler and has gathered much experience observing nature around the entire globe and spending time with people who are very connected to the nature that surrounds them. From1982 -83, he spent a year as an official visiting scholar at the Benares Hindu University, in Varanasi, India. After returning to the United States in 1984, he spent much time with traditional medicine persons of the Cheyenne and taught courses at Sheridan College in Sheridan, Wyoming. He has traveled and conducted research in South Asia, India, Mexico, the Canary Islands, South Africa, and much of Europe, pursuing ehtnobotanical and ethnomedicinal interests. He has written some twenty-five books and many articles in German and English, which have been translated into various languages, such as English, Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Japanese, Danish, Lithuanian, Latvian, and Czech. Storl is a frequent guest on German, Swiss and Austrian television and has also appeared on BBC.
After another visit in India and Nepal in 1986, he and his wife moved to Germany where he began to write books as a freelance writer and offer freelance lectures. He lives with his family on an old estate in the foothills of the Alps where he has a large garden.
Storl’s books are unique in that he does not treat nature only with cold objectivism. He is able to delve into nature's depths and supports his experience with ancient lore from all over the world that has been, for the most part, left on the wayside in the wake of objective science. He theorizes that science is not always as objective as it claims to be. He invites his readers on a journey into a world of nature that is completely alive and has its own rhyme and reason. Myths and lore from many cultures also have a prominent place in his writings, as he claims that the images portrayed in this way often tell us more about the true nature of things than dry facts can do.
Credentials:
MA from Kent State University, instructor there from 1967 – 1969 in anthropology and sociology.
PhD in Anthropology (magna cum lauda) from University of Berne Switzerland, Fulbright scholarship, 1974.
Organic, biodynamic gardener since 1970. First book, Culture and Horticulture from organic gardening course notes of three years on request of students.
Since 1986 freelance author living in Germany with family.
Wolf D. Storl also writes in German as Wolf-Dieter Storl
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March 28, 2026
Sterk aanbevolen voor iedereen met interesse in de kruidengeneeskunde. Storl traceert het gebruik van kruiden terug naar de steentijd en belicht zo een veel diepere dimensie van dit onderwerp dan de Griekse humorenleer waarop men vaak lijkt te blijven haken als het gaat over de 'oorspronkelijk Europese' geneeskunst. Gaandeweg worden ook allerlei kruiden behandeld, niet in een monografie-achtige weergave maar in de context van de tekst. De verbinding tussen het gebruik van woorden en kruiden ('Wort und Wurz') en de intuïtieve aspecten van volksheelkunde zijn voorbeelden van onderwerpen die ook aan bod komen.
October 15, 2023
Jako celek možná trochu neučesané a nevyvážené, taky trochu kulhá překlad a redakce, ale určitě stojí za přečtení a některé kapitoly i opakovaně. Wolf-Dieter Storl je osobnost, která si zaslouží pozornost, už jen pro šíři svého záběru.
November 27, 2016
Wer Wolf-Dieter Storl's Bücher kennt, weiß sie zu schätzen. Es gelingt ihm immer wieder den Leser mit seinen Geschichten in eine Zauberwelt zu entführen die wir heute nur noch als abergläubischen Abklatsch kennen. Durch den historisch-kulturanthropologischen Blickwinkel wieht man auf einmal vieles was einem sonst vielleicht eher also mumbo-jumbo vorkommt als Relikte aus einer anderen Zeit in der die Menschen sich noch kraft ihrer Imagination verzaubern ließen. Vieles aus seinen früheren Büchern findet sich hier wieder aber es wird dabei nicht langweilig, sondern der mytisch-magische Kontext unseres überlieferten Kräuterwissens wird einmal mehr in Perspektive gerückt, erweitert, beleuchtet und entpackt. Die spirituellen Imaginationen der traditionellen Heiler wird dabei einmal mehr wieder zugänglicher gemacht und weiter tradiert. Ein gelungenes und, wie immer, faszinierendes Buch.
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