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Jakob Böhme

1575 - 1624

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Jakob Böhme (; German: [ˈbøːmə]; 24 April 1575 – 17 November 1624) 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 (retaining the older German spelling); 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jakob Böhme is the 172nd most popular philosopher (up from 189th in 2019), the 58th most popular biography from Poland (up from 74th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Polish Philosopher.

Jakob Böhme is most famous for his book, Aurora. He is also famous for being a mystic and alchemist.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Jakob Böhme ranks 172 out of 1,267. Before him are Melissus of Samos, Ferdinand Tönnies, Adi Shankara, Ernst Cassirer, Jiddu Krishnamurti, and Xun Kuang. After him are Thomas Reid, Mikhail Bakhtin, Posidonius, Marquis de Condorcet, Hippias, and Jean Buridan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1575, Jakob Böhme ranks 3. Before him are Marie de' Medici, and Guido Reni. After him are Gwanghaegun of Joseon, Concino Concini, Christoph Scheiner, Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, John Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Antoine de Montchrestien, Diego, Prince of Asturias, Vittoria Aleotti, and Francesco Molin. Among people deceased in 1624, Jakob Böhme ranks 1. After him are Gaspard Bauhin, Gevherhan Sultan, Dirck van Baburen, Ahmad Sirhindi, Henry II, Duke of Lorraine, Charles of Austria, Bishop of Wroclaw, Fukushima Masanori, Ketevan the Martyr, Marco Antonio de Dominis, Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, and Juan de Mariana.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jakob Böhme ranks 58 out of 1,694. Before him are Hans-Ulrich Rudel (1916), Emanuel Lasker (1868), Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen (1895), Donald Tusk (1957), Billy Wilder (1906), and Ernst Cassirer (1874). After him are Sigismund I the Old (1467), Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941), Maximilian Kolbe (1894), Władysław III of Poland (1424), Ferdinand Lassalle (1825), and Irena Sendler (1910).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Poland

Among philosophers born in Poland, Jakob Böhme ranks 6. Before him are Arthur Schopenhauer (1788), Johann Gottfried Herder (1744), Zygmunt Bauman (1925), Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768), and Ernst Cassirer (1874). After him are Christian Wolff (1679), Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512), Alfred Tarski (1901), Günther Anders (1902), Heinrich Rickert (1863), and Paul Tillich (1886).

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