Saller, K(arl) F(elix) (1902-1969)

German professor of anthropology and genetics who has also studied parapsychology. He was born on September 3, 1902, at Kempten, Germany and did his college work at the University of Münich (Ph.D., 1924; M.D., 1926). He was a lecturer in anthropology and anatomy at the Universities of Kiel and Göttingen but was dismissed in 1935 for opposing Nazi racial doctrines. He entered private medical practice and became the sanatorium physician at Badenweiler (1936-39) and served in the German Army during World War II. After the war he became director of the Robert Bosch Hospital, Stuttgart (1945-48), but was able to return to teaching as a professor of anthropology and genetics at the University of Münich in 1948. In 1949 he became the director of the Institute of Anthropology and Human Genetics at Münich.

He published his paper "Die Parapsychologie vom Standpunkt des Anthropologen" in the journal Die Heilkunst, in 1955. He took an interest in the question of parapsychology as related to racial and age differences. He attended the First International Conference of Parapsychological Studies, Utrecht, Netherlands, in 1953 and the International Study Group on Unorthodox Healing at St. Paul de Vence, France, in 1954.

Saller died on October 15, 1969.

Sources:

Pleasants, Helene, ed. Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology. New York: Helix Press, 1964.

Saller, K. F. "Die Parapsychologie vom Standpunkt des Anthropologen" (Parapsychology from the anthropologist's point of view). Die Heilkunst 68, no. 7 (1955).