has gloss | eng: Randolph Stone (1890–1981), the founder of Polarity therapy, was born Rudolph Bautsch on 26 February 1890 in Engelsberg, Austria. The youngest of six children his mother died when he was two and at thirteen he emigrated to the United States with his father and one sister. The family settled in Turtle Lake, Wisconsin, with relatives living in Wisconsin and Minnesota and began working as a farm hand. He was given a scholarship to Concordia College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where he studied to be a Lutheran minister, learning English by reading the Bible. |