Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa | |
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 Engraving by Theodor de Bry, 1598 | |
| Born | 14 September 1486 |
| Died | 18 February 1535 (aged 48) |
| Alma mater | University of Cologne |
| Occupation(s) | Occult writer, theologian, physician, legal expert, and soldier |
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 Neoplatonism. His book was widely influential among esotericists of the early modern period, and was condemned as heretical by the inquisitor of Cologne.[1]
- ^ Bailey & Durrant (2012), p. [page needed].