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Jakob Böhme

1575–1624 · 17th century · Also known as Jacob Boehme

Jakob Böhme was a German Lutheran mystic and philosopher, a shoemaker in Görlitz in Upper Lusatia. His first work, Aurora (1612), describing visions of God and nature, led the town's pastor to have him banned from writing. His later writings influenced Pietism, English religious movements, German idealist philosophy and Romanticism.

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Margraviate of Upper Lusatia

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APA: The Epoch Institute. (2026). Jakob Böhme. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/jakob-bohme
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