• Michael Lorber (born September 7, 1802 in Kanischa), doctor, commissioner of the Carinthian state government in Greifenburg an der Drau, Upper Carinthia
• Maria Lorber (born January 6, 1805 in Kanischa)
• Maria Lorber (born March 8, 1807 in Kanischa)
• Cäcilia Lorber (born January 27, 1810 in Kanischa)
• Josef Lorber, teacher and post holder in Greifenberg, Upper Carinthia
  

Christian mystic and writer, musician

Jakob Lorber was born as the first son of Michael Lorber and his wife Maria. Tautscher, a long-established Catholic farming family, was born in the village of Kanischa in Lower Styria, Jahring parish - today it belongs to the municipality of Šentilj (St. Egidi) in Slovenia - [1]. At the age of 17 he moved to Marburg an der Drau where he became a teaching assistant and organist. Soon afterwards he went to Sankt Johann im Saggautal, where he received Latin lessons from a chaplain. The chaplain advised Lorber to prepare for the priestly profession, whereupon he returned to Marburg to attend high school. After completing five classes, he continued his high school studies in Graz. He made his living there as a tutor for singing, music (piano and violin) and drawing. In 1829 he attended the "higher educational course for teachers at secondary schools" and acquired a very good certificate. [2]

After the first unsuccessful application as a teacher, Lorber gave up this plan and turned entirely to music. He composed songs and concert pieces and thus came into contact with the well-known sound poet Anselm Hüttenbrenner. During this time, Lorber met the famous violinist Niccolò Paganini, who gave him a few lessons and became a role model. [3] He also gave concerts with Franz Schubert.

Jakob Lorber read, according to his biographer Leitner, in addition to the Bible, books by Jakob Böhme, Johann Tennhardt, Emanuel Swedenborg, Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling and Justinus Kerner. [4]

On March 15, 1840 at 6 a.m., Jakob Lorber, according to his own statements, heard an "inner voice" near his heart, which prompted him to write. From then on he dedicated his life to this voice, which he understood as the "voice of grace of the Lord Jesus Christ", and, following her "dictation", wrote down around 20,000 manuscript pages. He quit his job as a second chapel master at the Triester court, which had only just been preserved, because hearing the voice of grace was infinitely more important to him and it would have been incompatible with the luxurious well-being at court.

Lorber not only wrote himself, but dictated individual essays and even entire books to his friends, most of them Anselm Hüttenbrenner. In addition, he sometimes worked simultaneously on several works, which was documented by Hüttenbrenner in the large diaries. The manuscripts are all written in one go and contain very few changes and improvements. [5] [6]

With the start of his writing activity, Lorber was dependent on the support of his friends; among them were Graz dignitaries such as the Mayor Andreas Hüttenbrenner - Anselm's brother -, the pharmacist Leopold Cantily and the poet and Styrian state secretary Karl Gottfried von Leitner. This wrote about 1884 Lorber's biography. After Lorber's 60th year of life, his physical strength began to weaken, whereby according to his biographer Leitner, the mental continued to work without being weakened. [8] In 1864 he fell ill and had to look after the bed for three months. During this time, too, he dictated to his friends. At the beginning of spring, he recovered briefly, but finally died on August 24, 1864 of a lung disease. Lorber was buried in the St. Leonhard cemetery in Graz, [9] he was a member of the Roman Catholic Church until the end.

The manuscripts of Lorber were first distributed by hand by friends, because there was no possibility of printing in Austria. They were brought to Germany for publication, but there were also obstacles there: The book Die Jugend Jesu printed in Stuttgart in 1852 was confiscated by the official censorship. [10] His friend Johannes Busch continued to print the books, later Christoph Friedrich Landbeck (1840-1921). With the increasing distribution of Jakob Lorber's books, which only happened after his death on a larger scale, "Lorber circles of friends" formed in various places, which eventually led to a Lorber movement. [11] Jakob Lorber never received a fee for the books that were published during Lorber's lifetime, the first publishers of which were Justinus Kerner and Carl-Friedrich Zimpel, followed by Johannes Busch. [12] In total, Lorber's manuscripts - totaling around 10,000 printed pages - were printed in 25 books and many smaller scripts. [13]

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