Jakob Böhme
Jakob Böhme (/ˈbeɪmə, ˈboʊ-/; 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.
Jakob Böhme | |
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Jakob Böhme (anonymous portrait) | |
| Born | 24 April 1575 |
| Died | 17 November 1624 |
| Other names | Jacob Boehme, Jacob Behmen (English spellings) |
| Era | Early modern philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Christian mysticism |
Notable ideas | Boehmian theosophy The mystical being of the deity as the Ungrund ("unground", the ground without a ground) |
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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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