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Jakob Böhme (probably April 24 1575 – November 17 1624) was a German Christian mystic and theologian. He is considered an original thinker 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.

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birth date
1575-03-08, 1575-04-24
birth place
Holy Roman Empire, Upper Lusatia, Görlitz
death date
1624-11-17
death place
Görlitz
era
Modern philosophy
influenced
Arthur Schopenhauer, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Julius Evola, William Law, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, John Pordage, William Blake, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Pierre Poiret
influenced by
Caspar Schwenckfeld, Paracelsus, Valentin Weigel

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