Nizier Anthelme Philippe
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Nizier Anthelme Philippe April 25, 1849 - 1905 was born in Rubathier, Loisieux,Savoy, France, the son of peasants. He was also known as le maître Philippe. His mother was Marie Vashod and his father Joseph Philippe. He stayed with his uncle, a Butcher in Lyon. He gained a reputation as a healer by the age of thirteen, and by 1895 he ran a school of magnetism and massage at Lyon, which was linked to a similar establishment run by Papus in Paris.
He married Jeanne Landar in 1877. Philippe is buried at the Cimetière de loyasse in Lyon.
He soon gained a reputation as a miracle worker amongst Paris occultists. Having been harassed for practicing medicine without a license, he went to St Petersburg, where Nicholas II of Russia ordered that he should be given the status of army doctor by the St Petersburg Military Academy.
A French police report of 8 November 1902, stated that he was 5 feet and 5 inches tall, rather corpulent, brown-haired, deep blue-eyed with a vivid gaze.
His daughter, Victoire, died in 1904 aged 25. Philippe himself died on 2 August 1905 at the age of 56, in Arbresle, Rhône, France where he was living. He was buried in the cemetery of Loyasse (France). His Alsatian secretary, Alfred Hael wrote a well documented biography Vies et paroles du maître Philippe (Lives and words of Master Philippe).
