Agrippa von Nettesheim, Henry Cornelius

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Henry Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim

(German)

(31 October 1486 − 31 October 1535)

German writer, soldier, physician and magician, in the service of Emperor Maximilian I and later of the Dukes of Savoy and Monferrato. His interest in the occult sciences repeatedly brought him into conflict with the Church. His chief work, De occulta philosophia (written c. 1510, published Antwerp 1531), is a key text of Renaissance occultism; he also wrote De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum (1531) and De nobilitate et praecellentia feminei sexus (1532). (BCW 1:443).

His Three Books of Occult Philosophy appeared in Latin in 1533; an English translation signed J. F. was published in London in 1650. (BCW 3:495).

His De occulta philosophia, written in 1510, appeared in three volumes in 1533; Zirkoff distinguishes a later spurious fourth volume and identifies Henry Morley's 1856 biography as the source of passages used by Blavatsky. (BCW 4:619).

Author of De occulta philosophia libri tres, cited in an edition of 1533 and in the English translation Three Books of Occult Philosophy (London, 1650). (BCW 7:355).

Some links:

• Quotes: Zirkoff, Boris
• CTD article in Russian: Агриппа Неттесгеймский, Генрих Корнелий
• Other resources: Theosophy World Encyclopedia

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To show: Henry Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim; sortable: Agrippa von Nettesheim, Henry Cornelius
Person's short name: H. C. Agrippa; sortable: Agrippa, H. C.; for categories: Agrippa H.C.
Lifetime: 1486-1535
Shortly: German writer, soldier, physician and magician, in the service of Emperor Maximilian I and later of ...