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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim ( / əˈɡrɪpə /; German: [aˈgʀɪpa]; 14 September 1486 – 18 February 1535) was a German Renaissance polymath, physician, legal scholar, soldier, knight, theologian, and occult writer. Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy published in 1533 drew heavily upon Kabbalah, Hermeticism, and neo ...
Feb 15, 2017 · The intellectual biography of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486–1535) provides us with significant proof of a cultural crisis in the Renaissance. The most striking aspect of his heritage is the seemingly paradoxical coexistence of a comprehensive treatise on magic and occult arts, De occulta philosophia libri tres ( Three Books ...
Notable Works: “De occulta philosophia”. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (born Sept. 14, 1486, Cologne—died Feb. 18, 1535, Grenoble, Fr.) was a court secretary to Charles V, physician to Louise of Savoy, exasperating theologian within the Catholic Church, military entrepreneur in Spain and Italy, acknowledged expert on occultism ...
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Mar 30, 2007 · Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim. First published Fri Mar 30, 2007. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486–1535) had two very different and contradictory identities. He was the author of the most comprehensive and most widely known book on magic and all occult arts, De occulta philosophia libri tres / Three Books of Occult ...
Agrippa of Nettesheim was born of a once-noble family near Cologne, and studied both medicine and law there, apparently without taking a degree. In 1503, he assumed the name Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, adopting the von to suggest a noble background; three years later, he established a secret society in Paris devoted to astrology, magic, and Kabbalah.
May 18, 2018 · Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius. also known as Agrippa von Nettesheim. ( b. near Cologne, Germany, 14 September 1486; d. Grenoble, France, ca. 18 February 1535) magic, alchemy, philosophy, medicine. Agrippa’s father, Heinrich von Nettesheim, was a citizen of Cologne; nothing is known of his mother. Agrippa’s surname and epithet indicate both ...
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Henricus Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, a colorful Renaissance figure — a diplomat, a military adventurer, a kabbalist, an expert on occult science, a medical doctor, a lawyer, a theologian, an early Reformer, as well as a troublesome and troubled intellectual — was born of minor nobility in or near Cologne. His first official position was that of a court secretary of the Holy Roman ...
