Emilii Medtner

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Russian publisher, member of the Russian Anthoposophical Society, and influential member of the Russian Symbolist movement. Medtner was a patient and a friend of Carl Gustav Jung, and he was a member of the Zurich Analytical Psychology Club, and the Club’s first librarian. He was also an analyst with the Carl Gustav Jung Society of Berlin in 1931, and the editor of the Festschrift Die Kulturelle Bedeutung der Komplexen Psychologie. Medtner worked at the publishing house of Musaget, and was a friend of Rudolf Steiner, though he subsequently split with the Anthroposophical Society. An advocate of homeopathy and hydrotherapy, he consulted a homeopath to help him with his Meniere’s Disease. Medtner became a patient of Carl Gustav Jung in 1914, and he influenced Jung‘s thoughts on symbols and translated three volumes of Carl Gustav Jung‘s works into Russian, financed by Medtner’s friend Edith Rockerfeller McCormick. Emilii often wrote under his pen name of Volfing. He died in 1936.