Nizier Anthelme Philippe
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Anthelme Nizier Philippe was born on April 25, 1849 in Le Rubathier, Loisieux, Savoy, France, the son of peasants. He was also known as Maître Philippe or " Maître Philippe de Lyon ". 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.
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 L'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).
