Born in 1777 in Flasch. In 1802 it made his desire to get to know Italy. In 1805 he was for the first time in Ischia, lived in Casamicciola at Sentinella. He met an old woman who took her by hand he said to her that she was sick and we would be healed, for strangers the water has extraordinary virtue while for the islanders had no healing power.