Jakob Böhme (1575 to 1624) was a German philosopher, Christian mystic and Lutheran theologian, born in Alt Seidenberg near Görlitz in Upper Lusatia. A shoemaker by trade with no formal education, he read the Bible and visionaries such as Paracelsus, Weigel and Schwenckfeld, and reported visions in 1600 and 1610 that showed him the spiritual structure of the world and the relationship between God and man, and good and evil. His first book, Aurora, written from about 1612, was denounced as heretical by the chief pastor of Görlitz. His writing shows the influence of Neoplatonist and alchemical writers while remaining within a Christian tradition. Hegel described him as the first German philosopher, and he influenced German idealism and Romanticism.
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was a German philosopher, Christian mystic, and Lutheran Protestant theologian
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Böhme was born on 24 April 1575 at Alt Seidenberg (now Stary Zawidów, Poland)
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24 April 1575-17 November 1624
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24 April 1575-17 November 1624
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He was considered an original thinker by many of his contemporaries within the Lutheran tradition
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was a German philosopher, Christian mystic, and Lutheran Protestant theologian
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By 1599, Böhme was master of his craft with his own premises in Görlitz.
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Böhme was born on 24 April 1575 at Alt Seidenberg (now Stary Zawidów, Poland)
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He believed this vision revealed to him the spiritual structure of the world, as well as the relationship between God and man, and good and evil.
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Böhme's writing shows the influence of Neoplatonist and alchemical writers such as Paracelsus
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while remaining firmly within a Christian tradition
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He regularly prayed and read the Bible as well as works by visionaries such as Paracelsus, Weigel and Schwenckfeld
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was a German philosopher, Christian mystic, and Lutheran Protestant theologian
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