DR BARON KLAUS VON HEIDELBERG III

Born in the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1863, Dr. von Heidelberg received his Doctor of Medicine at the university in the capital Munich. He was renowned at having a special touch as a physician and could cure many illnesses that others could not.

Dr. von Heidelberg moved to Stuttgart in 1885. There he befriended the great inventors. Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach had an engine shop at Cannstatt’s Taubenheimstrasse and were working on the first motorcycle.¹ The Baron had a keen interest in inventions and locomotion as well as medicine and science. He was particularly fascinated with Daimler’s motorized bicycle.

In 1887 Dr. von Heidelberg moved to the Belgian city of Ostend. There he met Madame Blavatsky and was introduced to the Theosophical Society. By the 1890s he followed Blavatsky to England and was introduced to her inner circle of twelve disciples. Other members of this inner circle included Archibald Keightley and George Mead.²

By 1895 von Heidelberg set up his practice in the United States, in New Orleans, yet he traveled extensively to India and the Middle East. He became a collector of artifacts and relics and practiced a form of magic for which he coined the term “Matgick.” It was during this period that his practice delved more into mysticism than medicine.

Dr. von Heidelberg disappeared in 1908.