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Peuckert in: Böhme, Sämtl.Schr. 1, 132: Wolfenbüttel 772 Helmst. | |||
Wolfenbütteler Barock-Nachrichten - Bände 18-19 - Seite 25 | |||
Weeks, in: Aurora ed. Weeks: | |||
Another contemporary whose relation to Boehme is unknown suggests | |||
the degree to which the shoemaker’s preoccupation with sacred and secular | |||
knowledge was not extraordinary in Görlitz.12 Abraham Behem (1540– | |||
1614) was a prominent Paracelsian physician, Lutheran church official, and | |||
brother-in-law of Scultetus who, in his preoccupations, reconciled humanism | |||
and alchemy with some involvement in dissenting circles. As a student | |||
in Basel, Behem had known the humanist Conrad Gesner. He corre- | |||
sponded with the Lutheran dissenter ValentinWeigel and collected alchemical | |||
treatises of a practical-medical type.13 In Görlitz, the religious implications | |||
of Paracelsism had elicited a furious orthodox response.14 Behem, | |||
however, offers a measure of the pluralism of Görlitz. He was capable of corresponding | |||
amicably with Weigel while remaining in the fold of Lutheran | |||
respectability. The humanistic mayor Scultetus edited a Paracelsian plague | |||
tract without, or despite, clerical censure. In latitudinarian Görlitz, heterodox | |||
introspective spirituality and Paracelsian nature speculationwent hand | |||
in hand with humanism, science, and religious respectability. The coexistence | |||
of orthodox and heterodox tendencies in Boehme’s work, which posterity | |||
has often oversimplified to innocent piety or insolent heresy, was not | |||
unknown in his city. | |||
12 For an overview of B.’s intellectual surroundings, see Leigh T.I. Penman, “Boehme’s | |||
Intellectual Networks and the Heterodox Milieu of His Theosophy, 1600–1624,” in Hessayon | |||
and Apatrei, An Introduction to Jacob Boehme, 57–76 (https://books.google.de/books?id=8ReYAAAAQBAJ); and Boehme, 20–31. | |||
13 For assembling the available information on Behem, I am grateful to Leigh Penman, | |||
who I hope will pursue the leads he has found in P.C. Boeren, Codices Vossiani Chymici (Leiden: | |||
Bibliotheca Universitatis Leidensis, 1975); Richard J. Durling, “Conrad Gesner’s Liber | |||
Amicorum 1555–1625,” in Gesnerus 22 (1965), 153, 157; Eduard Machatschek, Geschichte der Bischöfe | |||
des Hochstifts Meissen in chronologischer Reihenfolge (Dresden: Meinhold, 1884), 804; | |||
Karl vonWeber, AnnaChurfürstin zu Sachsen. Ein Lebens- und Sittenbild ausdemsechszehnten | |||
Jahrhundert (Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1865), 481; and above all Max Gondolatsch, Neues lausitzisches | |||
Magazin 111–112 (1935), 101. See Boehme, 30, 39; and Weeks, Valentin Weigel: German | |||
Religious Dissenter, Speculative Theorist, and Advocate of Tolerance (Albany: State University | |||
of New York Press, 2000), 167–168. | |||
14 Ernst-Heinz Lemper, “Görlitz und der Paracelsismus,” Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie | |||
18:3 (1970): 347–360. | |||
Studium der Medizin in Basel (immatr. 1563/64); spätestens seit Ende 1650 Arzt in Görlitz; Paracelsist; nach Durling in Begleitung von zwei Paracelsisten. Gestorben 1599. | |||
Durling, p.136: Eintrag in das Stammbuch Görlitz ohne Datum; p.153: Georgius Marquardus] A Paracelsian, accompanying Fabianus a Weissenfels of Meissen and Abraham Behem of Görlitz (Greek note by Gesner). MUB II 150. // MUB= Matr. Basel | |||
Penman (2010, Ein Liebhaber), 76: Another person whom Walther undoubtedly encountered was Scultetus' step-brother, the physician Abraham Behem (+ 1599). Behem was not only an expert in matters Paracelsian, renowned for his knowledge throughout Lusatia, Saxony and beyond: in 1579, he also corresponded with the Zschopau pastor Valentin Weigel (1533-1588) on the finer points of Paracelsian cosmology and cosmogony. As we shall see, Walther would later reciprocate an interest in Weigel's philosophy. | |||
Penman (2008, A Second Christian Rosenkreuz?), 160: In addition to the friend and correspondent of Valentin Weigel, Abraham Behem, chief among them was the aforementioned astronomer, mathematician and cartographer who had once studied with Tycho Brahe in Leipzig: Bartholomäus Scultetus. | |||
Weeks (1991), 30: A second member of this group is even more intriguing. His name was Abraham Behem. In 1579, when Jacob Boehme was only four, Abraham BehemScultetus's brother-in-lawcorresponded with the heretical Valentin | |||
Weigel. At the time, Weigel's reputation as a mystic was known only to a few colleagues or correspondents. His | |||
writings did not circulate in print until 1609. The name Behem is an orthographic variation of Boehme. The name | |||
with its variants was too common in the region to establish any kinship. Whether they were related or not, | |||
Abraham clearly anticipated a number of Jacob's mystical tropes. If the shoemaker had a single important mentor, | |||
it was this mysterious figure who had previously proffered his theories to Weigel. | |||
When and where a manuscript was written is not always known. The type of script is an important aid to help determine the production date. In some cases, scribes wrote down when they completed the manuscript or a portion of it. Here we see such notations at fols. 1r, 47r, 53v, 155v and 229v, which shows that the manuscript was written between 1575 and 1586. An outlier is encountered on fol. 225, where the scribe has written down “1546 23 Martii MAB” (MAB are the initials of the scribe Magister Abraham Behem). This particular date could easily have been copied by accident from the exemplar. This inconsistency in recorded dates is a good reminder that one should always be careful to not make automatic assumptions when interpreting a date in a manuscript.; https://digmanclass.universiteitleiden.nl/manuscripts/vcf-18/ | |||
The first part was written by Abraham Behem, brother-in-law of Bartolomaeus Scultetus (1540-1616) and the second part by Hans Jenitz (alive between 1558 and 1585).; http://philipneal.net/voynichsources/rudolph_manuscripts/ | |||
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=== Main Sources === | === Main Sources === | ||
CP 3, 525-526 | |||
Weeks, Boehme's Life and Times before 1613, in: Aurora ed. Weeks, 10-11; DOI: 10.1163/9789004225688_003 | |||
{{Source|Article|Author=Leigh Penman|Title="Ein Liebhaber des Mysterii, und ein großer Verwandter desselben." : Toward the Life of Balthasar Walther: Kabbalist, Alchemist and Wandering Paracelsian Physician|Journal=Sudhoffs Archiv|Vol=94|Issue=1|Year=2010|Pages=73-99|PagEsp=76, 81|online=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20778428|DOI=|free=}} | |||
Leigh T.I. Penman, Jacob Böhme and His Networks, in: Jacob Böhme and His World, 98-120; DOI: 10.1163/9789004385092_005 | |||
Winfried Zeller: Die Schriften Valentin Weigels, Berlin 1940, 53-54 | |||
Winfried Zeller: Naturmystik und spiritualistische Theologie bei Valentin Weigel, in: Antoine Faivre and Rolf-Christian Zimmermann (Hg.), Epochen der Naturmystik. Hermetische Tradition in wissenschaftlichen Fortschritt, Berlin, 1979, pp. 105-124 | |||
Andrew Weeks: Boehme. An Intellectual Biography of the Seventeenth-Century Philosopher and Mystic, Albany, 1991, p. 30, 39, 42 | |||
Lemper, Anfänge akademischer Sozietäten ..., 1161; https://books.google.de/books?id=1LznBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1161 | |||
Lieb, Valentin Weigels Kommentar zur Schöpfungsgeschichte und das Schrifttum seines Schülers Benedikt Biedermann (Zürich: EVZ Verlag, 1962), pp. 38-41, 161-62. n. 90a-91 | |||
Durling, Richard J., Conrad Gesner's Liber amicorum 1555-1565, Gesnerus 22:3-4 (1965), 134-159, esp. 136; DOI: 10.5169/seals-520791 | |||
Neues Lausitisches Magazin; https://books.google.de/books?id=dv8_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA75&dq=behem | |||
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CP 3, 525-526
Weeks, Boehme's Life and Times before 1613, in: Aurora ed. Weeks, 10-11; DOI: 10.1163/9789004225688_003
Leigh Penman: “"Ein Liebhaber des Mysterii, und ein großer Verwandter desselben." : Toward the Life of Balthasar Walther: Kabbalist, Alchemist and Wandering Paracelsian Physician”, in: Sudhoffs Archiv 94, no. 1 (2010), 73-99, esp. 76, 81 (online)
Leigh T.I. Penman, Jacob Böhme and His Networks, in: Jacob Böhme and His World, 98-120; DOI: 10.1163/9789004385092_005
Winfried Zeller: Die Schriften Valentin Weigels, Berlin 1940, 53-54
Winfried Zeller: Naturmystik und spiritualistische Theologie bei Valentin Weigel, in: Antoine Faivre and Rolf-Christian Zimmermann (Hg.), Epochen der Naturmystik. Hermetische Tradition in wissenschaftlichen Fortschritt, Berlin, 1979, pp. 105-124
Andrew Weeks: Boehme. An Intellectual Biography of the Seventeenth-Century Philosopher and Mystic, Albany, 1991, p. 30, 39, 42
Lemper, Anfänge akademischer Sozietäten ..., 1161; https://books.google.de/books?id=1LznBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1161
Lieb, Valentin Weigels Kommentar zur Schöpfungsgeschichte und das Schrifttum seines Schülers Benedikt Biedermann (Zürich: EVZ Verlag, 1962), pp. 38-41, 161-62. n. 90a-91
Durling, Richard J., Conrad Gesner's Liber amicorum 1555-1565, Gesnerus 22:3-4 (1965), 134-159, esp. 136; DOI: 10.5169/seals-520791
Neues Lausitisches Magazin; https://books.google.de/books?id=dv8_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA75&dq=behem
