Abraham von Franckenberg

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Abraham Graf von Franckenberg (born June 24, 1593 in Ludwigsdorf near Oels (today: Bystre ), † June 25, 1652 there ) was a Silesian mystic .

Life

Abraham von Franckenberg came from the ancient Silesian nobility. After attending grammar school in Brieg , he enrolled at the University of Leipzig in 1612 , continued his studies at the University of Wittenberg in 1613 and at the University of Jena in the winter semester of 1613/14 . After completing his studies, he returned to the Ludwigsdorf family estate in 1617. In addition to managing his estates, he studied the writings of the mystics, especially Johann Taulers , Kaspar Schwenckfeld and Jakob Boehmes .

He was particularly strongly influenced by Boehme's Aurora or the Morgenröthe , which appeared in 1612. Asked several times by the Duke of Oels to enter his service, he always refused, on the grounds that he was afraid of getting entangled in sins. Soon a circle of friends of mystics and Rosicrucians was formed under his leadership , which met either with him in Ludwigsdorf or with another patron of Jakob Böhme, Johann Sigismund von Schweinichen .

Franckenberg belonged to the Silesian mystic circle, which also includes Angelus Silesius . As it is written on Schweinichen's tombstone, he “left worldly society at the age of man and spent the greatest time of his life in solitary contemplation of the mysteries of God and nature”, which can be said of all members of the Franckenberg Circle. For this group, the work of the revelation of the Spirit did not end with the apparition to the apostles; they themselves sought to come closer to the mystery of God through visions.

In 1634 the plague broke out in Silesia ; everyone had fled, only Franckenberg stayed with his sick, supplied them with medicines and buried the dead. Around 1640 he was the target of the Protestant publicists and theologians, because he rejected confession and the Lord's Supper in Schwenckfeld's successor .

Between July 1642 and autumn 1649 he lived, with intermittent stays in Elbing and Weichselmünde, as an exile in Danzig in a position as a tutor for the Dutch merchant du Pre "prope Templum parochiale auff dem Schnüffelmarcka". In Danzig he also met Johannes Hevelius , whose interest in astronomy he shared. After returning to Ludwigsdorf, he died there unmarried in 1652. He bequeathed his library to his friend Schweinichen, who later passed it on to Angelus Silesius (parts of it are now the University Library in Breslau ). Franckenberg's tombstone in the Ludwigsdorf church is full of mysterious symbols, the meaning of which has not been clarified.

Works

  • Conclvsiones de Fundamento Sapientiae Theorico-practicae . That is / final decision from the bottom of wisdom / brought together by a number of lovers of truth. Amsterdam: Königstein, 1646. ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )

Most of his writings, which he wrote under the pseudonym Amadeus von Friedleben , appeared after his death: Nosce te ipsum , Frankfurt 1675; the Medicina Dei , influenced by Paracelsus , Amsterdam 1670. In 1676 A. von Franckenberg published his most important work Raphael or Arztengel on esoteric medicine and psychotherapy . The title refers to the archangel Raphael, who is traditionally responsible for healing . Franckenberg represents a microcosm - macrocosm theory and the signature theory . Illness can therefore be treated in three ways: through medication (= conventional medicine), through spiritual healing (= clairvoyance) and through magic . - His pseudonym Amadeus Friedlieb was continued to be used between 1659 and 1665 by the director of the Secret Chemical Laboratory in Dresden, a mountain ridge, who was not known by name.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Siegfried Wollgast: Oppositional Philosophy in Germany , Berlin 2005, p. 257
  2. ↑ Amadeus Friedliebs, Director of the Secret Laboratory, calculations over 1500 Reichstaler '(concerns the Probierhaus in Dresden)
  3. ^ Michael Ulrich Brysch: August Hauptmann (1607–1674). On the life, work and impact of a Dresden medical alchemist. Centaurus, Herbolzheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-86226-108-6 , p. 19ff
personal data
SURNAME Franckenberg, Abraham von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Franckenberg, Abraham Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Silesian mystic
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1593
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigsdorf near Oels
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1652
Place of death Ludwigsdorf near Oels