biography
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Böhme or Boehme, Jakob
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pronunciation:
[boemuh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1575–1624)
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| biography:
| Theosophist and mystic, born in Altseidenberg, Germany. He became a shoemaker, but in 1600 had a mystical experience which led him towards meditation on divine things. Aurora (1612) contains revelations upon God, humanity, and nature, and shows considerable knowledge of Scripture and of the writings of alchemists. It was condemned by the ecclesiastical authorities of Gürlitz, and he was cruelly persecuted, but in 1623 he published The Great Mystery and On the Election of Grace, and his influence spread beyond Germany to Holland and England. |
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