Evidence of Andreae's direct involvement in the composition of the Fama fraternitatis and the Confessio fraternitatis, though, was.Adam Roberts, Albert Robida, Alfred Bate Richards, Antonius Diogenes, Aphra Behn, Arthur Evans, Athanasius Kircher, Ben Jonson, Brian Stableford, Camille Flammarion, Christian Huygens, Cyrano de Bergerac, Daniel Defoe, David Russen, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Bellamy, Edward Everett Hale, Edward S.

For centuries the only real link between Andreae and these two manifestoes was the name Christian Rosenkreutz taken from Andreae's youthful romance, the Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosenkreutz. Andreae saw himself as a Christian Hercules capable of rescuing church and state from its moral decline and became the force behind the Rosicrucian writings, which were written just after his expulsion from Tubingen (in 1607) as compensation for his disappointments. He offers a brief sketch of Andreae's life and of the intellectual circle in Tubingen, notably the Paracelsian Tobias Hess and Christoph Besold, who were moved by Johann Arndt's Wahres Christentum (1605) towards Lutheran reform. Schmidt-Biggemann's introductory essay places Andreae within the context of the Holy Roman Empire in the Thirty Years' War and his struggles to maintain his Lutheran identity. To these may now be added a volume with Andreae's fictional utopia Christianopolis (1619) and his allegorical poem 'Christenburg.' A number of others have already appeared: Veri Christianismi Solidaeque Philosophiae Libertas in 1994 some biographical works in 1995 the Theca Gladii Spiritus (in 2000 Theophilus in 2002 Schriften zur christlichen Reform in 2010 and of especial interest to many, the Rosenkreuzerschriften in 2010. Dickson, Texas A&M University.Īnother new volume has now been added to the projected nineteen-volume edition of the collected works of Johann Valentin Andreae (1586-1654), under the general editorship of Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann of the Free University of Berlin. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: frommann-holzboog, 2018.

Edited and translated by Frank Bohling and Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann. Christenburg: Das ist: ein schon geistlich Gedicht (1616).

Reipublicae Christianopolitanae descriptio (1619).

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