Jean-Bernard Klus
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Jean-Bernard Klus was a fictional mathematician and philosopher created as a hoax by David Solomon (educator and writer).
In his books[citation needed] he provides a biography and history of this fictional character as follows:
Jean-Bernard Klus (1879-1961?) mathematician and philosopher.
Klus was born in Paris, in a small apartment on the Rue de la Leur on the 18th April 1879. His father, Albert Klus, a school teacher, instilled in the young Klus a love of mathematics and a solid grounding in critical thinking. His mother influenced him towards music, a field in which Klus originally planned to make his career. Showing early promise, however, in abstract mathematics and literature, he was admitted to the Valerie Monoir School of Contemporary Philosophy, in 1895, at the age of sixteen.
Graduating from the Valerie Monoir School in 1902 as a Doctor of Philosophy and Letters, Klus took up a residential tutorship at the University of Vienna. Returning to Paris in the summer of 1905, Klus was immediately immersed in the artistic and literary circles of the cultural capital of Europe and he soon became one of its more important and respected figures.
In 1907, Klus was appointed a full-time teacher at The Valerie Monoir School - a position he retained for the next thirty years. Between 1908 and 1920, he developed some of his most outstanding philosophical principles, including Obscuritism and Mathematical Elimination, writing and teaching prodigiously. This period of prolific intellectual activity was influenced by a two-year sojourn in Africa in 1912-13 and a six-month odyssey in the United States of America in 1915. While in Africa, Klus claimed to have taught ancient wisdom and meditation by an elderly jungle mystic, though this has never been confirmed historically.
In the twenty years between the two wars, Klus, living mostly in Paris, influenced many of the world's leading artists, writers, scientists and thinkers. So essential did Klus become to the intellectual elite of Europe, and so wide was his acclaim as the greatest original philosopher of his time, that the question of his leaving for London at the end of 1938 was discussed at length in the French Parliament of the day.
Foreseeing however, the great shadow of Nazi tyranny, Klus took up an appointment as Professor of Philosophy at the University of London, just before World War II. After the war, academic philosophers from around the world once again sought inspiration from 'the father of modern, conceptual thinking.'
In 1953, Klus began his magnum opus, a complete conceptual system known as "The Nine Steps To Philosophical and Moral Perfection." Living an almost hermit-like existence from 1954 onwards, Klus delivered one new step, in a single lecture on August 1st each year. Outside of these lectures, he spoke to no one and provided no explanation. Klus even refused to accept the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature. If not for the work of Klus's principle disciples, Professors John Morton and Anthony Jarard, we would have very little understanding of "The Nine Steps." Despite this however, The Nine Steps lectures gained Klus wide acclaim in academic circles and unparalleled popularity amongst the lay population of the civilized world.
What happened in the last few days of Klus's life remains a mystery to this day. Due to deliver the Ninth and final step on August 1, 1961, Klus failed to appear and was never seen again. The circumstances surrounding his whereabouts were never to become known. His loss was mourned by many around the globe although, exactly as he foretold, five years after his death, he was almost completely forgotten.
BOOKS BY KLUS
The vast majority of books written by Klus have been published by the Glick International Collection. These include:
Soul of the Unconscious God (1946) The Destruction of Numbers (1937) Collected Klusian Essays (1943) The Limits of The Infinite - More Klusian Essays (1948) Obscuritism and the New Political Reality (1922) A Dissortation on Colour and Light (1951) The General Theory of Obscuritism (1919) The Special Theory of Obscuritism (1921) The Flow (1949) An Outline of Mathematical Elimination (1920) The Handbook of the Finite Mind (1953) Clouds of Consciousness, Rains of Reality and the Thunder of God (1930) The Hairy Soul - A Metaphysical Play (1940) The Memoirs of Klus Vol. 1 The Memoirs of Klus Vol. 2 The Handbook For the Palace of Blue (1960)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
J. V Morton, A Symbiosis of Metaphysic Logic and Integral Absolutism - The Nine Steps of Klus (1962)
J.V Morton, The Complete Nine Steps of Klus (1969)
A.A Jarard, Explanations - A Guide to Klusian Philosophy for the Layman and his Family (1964)
A.A. Jarard, The Nine Steps - A Guide to Spiritual Ascendancy (1965)
Dr S. Evans, The Prince of Truth (1975)
