Not to be confused with Franz Hartmann (1796-1853) homeopathic Medical Doctor.
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Hartmann was an associate of Helena Blavatsky and was Chairman of the Board of Control of the Theosophical Society Adyar.[1] He collaborated with the mystic Carl Kellner. He published the journals Lotusblüthen (1893-1900) and Neue Lotusblüten (1908-1913). He wrote articles on yoga and popularized the subject within Germany.[1]
He has been described as "one of the most important theosophical writers of his time".[1] His works include several books on esoteric studies and biographies of Jakob Böhme and Paracelsus. He translated the Bhagavad Gita into German and was the editor of the journal Lotusblüten. He was at one time a co-worker of Helena Blavatsky at Adyar. In 1896 he founded a German Theosophical Society. He also joined and supported the far-right esotericist Guido-von-List-Society (Guido-von-List-Gesellschaft) which was a modern Pagannew religious movement which promoted Wotanism, a proposed revival of the religion of the ancient German race, and which included an inner set of openly racist Ariosophical teachings that Guido-Von-List termed Armanism.
^ abcBaier, Karl. (2018). Yoga within Viennese Occultism: Carl Kellner and Co. In Karl Baier, Philipp André Maas, Karin Preisendanz. Yoga in Transformation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Vienna University Press. pp. 395-396. ISBN978-3-7370-0862-4
