[Gutenberg 16306] • Jacob Behmen: An Appreciation

[Gutenberg 16306] • Jacob Behmen: An Appreciation
Authors
Whyte, Alexander
Publisher
Dodo Press
Tags
mysticism -- germany -- history -- 17th century , 1575-1624 , böhme , jakob , mystics -- germany -- biography
ISBN
9781409955252
Date
1894-04-05T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.05 MB
Lang
en
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Jakob Bohme (probably April 24, 1575 a " November 17, 1624) was a German Christian mystic and theologian. He is considered an original thinker within the Lutheran tradition. In seventeenth-century England, he was also known as Jacob Behmen, the corrupted surname approximating the contemporary pronunciation of the German 'Bohme.'