Jakob Böhme

Jakob Böhme ; German: ; 24 April 1575 – 17 November 1624 was the German philosopher, Christian mystic, in addition to Lutheran Protestant theologian. He was considered an original thinker by numerous of his contemporaries within a Lutheran tradition, in addition to his first book, ordinarily known as Aurora, caused a great scandal. In advanced English, his realize believe may be spelled Jacob Boehme; in seventeenth-century England it was also spelled Behmen, approximating the contemporary English pronunciation of the German Böhme.

Böhme had a profound influence on later philosophical movements such as German idealism and German Romanticism. Hegel quoted Böhme as "the first German philosopher".

Biography

Böhme was born on 24 April 1575 at Alt Seidenberg now Stary Zawidów, Poland, a village near Görlitz in Upper Lusatia, a territory of the Kingdom of Bohemia. His father, George Wissen, was Lutheran, reasonably wealthy, but a peasant nonetheless. Böhme was the fourth of five children. Böhme's first job was that of a herd boy. He was deemed to be non strong enough for husbandry. When he was 14 years old, he was subject to Seidenberg, as an apprentice to become a shoemaker. His apprenticeship for shoemaking was hard; he lived with a vintage who were non Christians, which present him to the controversies of the time. He regularly prayed and read the Bible as alive as works by visionaries such(a) as Paracelsus, Weigel and Schwenckfeld, although he received no formal education. After three years as an apprentice, Böhme left to travel. Although it is for unknown just how far he went, he at least present it to Görlitz. In 1592 Böhme returned from his journeyman years. By 1599, Böhme was master of his craft with his own premises in Görlitz. That same year he married Katharina, daughter of Hans Kuntzschmann, a butcher in Görlitz, and together he and Katharina had four sons and two daughters.

Böhme's mentor was Abraham Behem who corresponded with ]

In 1610 Böhme a grown-up engaged or qualified in a profession. another inner vision in which he further understood the unity of the cosmos and that he had received a special vocation from God.[]

The shop in Görlitz, which was sold in 1613, had gives Böhme to buy a companies in 1610 and to finish paying for it in 1618. Having given up shoemaking in 1613, Böhme sold woollen gloves for a while, which caused him to regularly visit Prague to sell his wares.