Jakob Böhme

aka Jacob Boehme, Jacob Behmen

Country

Germany

Languages

German

Dates

1575 — 1624

christianityearly modern europemysticism

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Jakob Böhme 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 ; in seventeenth-century England it was also spelled Behmen, approximating the contemporary English pronunciation of the German Böhme.