University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Besides this, apart from the actual stigmata, there are many points in the case of Therese Neumann which appear to be entirely new and all contrary to all rules of medical science.

This was what prompted the medical faculty of the famous University of Erlangen in Germany to send a special commission to Konnersreuth in order to obtain an exact record of the case and to make a thorough scientific examination of it on a strictly materialistic basis.

The commission consisted of six physicians and was headed by Dr. August Ewald, famous professor of Erlangen University and one of the best-known German psychologists.

It must be said that the Roman Catholic Church in Germany and Austria was far from spreading the news of a new miracle.

How this phenomenon can be explained I leave to my colleagues from the medical faculty to decide.

I can only testify that the words spoken by Therese during her Friday trances are Hebrew, Aramaic, and partly Latin when it comes to quoting words of Pilate.

The results of this examination of the mystery girl by the learned commission of the University of Erlangen were awaited with intense interest by church people, skeptics, and scientists, and when their failure to explain the phenomenon was announced, a second committee of investigation from another university was organized, and medical men, scientists, and earnest laymen from all over the world started for the little Bavarian village, determined to get to the bottom of the matter.

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And so I, um, became an American historian, early American historian.

And then I got a job in this new university in Florida.

It was only one year old, um, just begun, Florida International University.

Now it's very large with like 40 to 50,000 students, but it was a small place, just juniors and seniors when I went there.

At 13, they were practically calling him a teacher.

He was, he was a gaon in, uh, in our language.

And, and so, uh, he went on to, uh, get PhD at two German, at, at German university, the University of Erlangen, very fine university.

I don't know what his PhD was on, but clearly he was brought up in an Orthodox world, but a very, also the secular world.

Well, the Germans, unsurprisingly, have a way to be late exactly on time.

I was teaching at Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen, which is in Bavaria.

And the first day of class, which starts at 18, 6 p.m., We were supposed to start at 18.

People started to come in at 18.05. And I went full racist.