Jakob Böhme
Jakob Böhme (; ; 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.
Hegel described Böhme as "the first German philosopher".
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