Category:1800 Lorber, Jakob (visionary) AUT

Jakob Lorber (1800-1864) was a Slovenian-Austrian visionary and the founder of the Lorber Movement. Jakob Lorber was born July 22, 1800 at Kaniža in Southern Styria (now Slovenia). An accomplished violinist, he gave up his musical career to follow his spiritual call. In 1840, he claimed that he had began hearing an inner voice and in the following 24 years, until his death, he produced a large amount of literature allegedly dictated to him by this inner voice speaking to him in the first person as the voice of Jesus of Nazareth. Among his writings are "Gospel" narratives, such as a longer version of the Gospel of John and a detailed account of the Infancy and Hidden Years of Jesus, as well as the supposed "authentic" text of the lost letter of Paul to the Laodiceans. Lorber died on August 24, 1864 in Graz, Austria.