Quotes:Rosenroth, Christian Knorr von

Zirkoff, Boris

Rosenroth, Baron Christian Knorr von. Christian Hebraist, b. at Alt-Randen, in Silesia, July 15, 1631, d. 1689. After completing studies at the Universities of Wittenberg and Leipzig, travelled through Holland, France and England. Upon settling at Sulzbach, devoted himself to the study of Oriental languages, especially Hebrew. At a later date, became a diligent student of the Kaballah, in search for proofs of the doctrines of Christianity. Best known on account of his work entitled Kabbalah denudata, seu doctrina Hebraeorum transcendentalis et metaphysica atque theologica, etc. It contains a Latin translation, as well as the Hebrew text, of several treatises of the Zohar, such as the Idrah Rabbah, the Idrah Zutah, and the Siphra di Zeni’ulah, as well as some of the writings of Isaac Luria. It combines both the Mantua and Cremona versions, together with other insertions. Vol. I appeared at Sulzbach, 1677-78, and Vol. II at Frankfurt a. Main, 1684. An English translation of parts of this work were published by C. Liddell MacGregor Matbers, as The Kabbalah Unveiled, London, George Redway, 1887, 8vo.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 11, p. 589