Jakob Böhme
1575 – 1624 · aged 49
German Christian mystic and theologian (1575-1624)
- Born
- 1575 · Stary Zawidów
- Died
- 17 Nov 1624 · Görlitz
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- 1575BornBorn in Stary Zawidów
- 17 Nov 1624DiedDied in Görlitz
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Biography
Jakob Böhme (German: [ˈbøːmə]; 24 April 1575 – 17 November 1624) was a German philosopher, Christian mystic, and Lutheran Protestant theologian. He was considered an original thinker by many of his contemporaries within the Lutheran tradition, and his first book, commonly known as Aurora, caused a great scandal. In contemporary English, his name may be spelled Jacob Boehme (retaining the older German spelling); in seventeenth-century England it was also spelled Behmen, approximating the contemporary English pronunciation of the German Böhme.
Böhme had a profound influence on later philosophical movements such as German idealism and German Romanticism. Hegel described Böhme as "the first German philosopher".
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