Adam Haslmayr

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Adam Haslmayr (also Haslmair ; born October 31, 1562 in Bozen , † after January 16, 1630 in Augsburg ) was a German theosophical writer and composer.

Like his father, he had civil rights in Bozen, attended school in Bozen and Brixen , where he learned from the cathedral organist Andreas Casletanus, and was then briefly a schoolmaster in St. Pauls and from 1588 a Latin parish schoolmaster in Bozen. He was also a choirmaster in the church and composed. In 1592 he gave his collection of songs for several voices to Newe Teutsche Gesang in Augsburg.

Haslmayr studied the writings of Paracelsus and published a Theophrastisch Puechlein in 1603 , which led to his dismissal from school. He was able to gain the interest of Archduke Maximilian of Tyrol , who supported him financially in further studies. Around 1605 he moved to Schwaz and in 1610 to Heiligkreuz near Hall in Tirol .

He also had contacts to occult theosophical currents of the early Rosicrucians (whose Fama Fraternitatis he had known since 1610 before they were printed and to whom he had an affirmative answer printed in 1612), such as Prince August von Anhalt , Benedictus Figulus and the town doctor Karl Widemann in Augsburg . In Catholic Tyrol he was suspected of Calvinism and deviant teachings. In addition to the local Jesuits, Hall's anti-Paracelsian doctor Hippolyt Guarinoni excelled in the persecution of Haslmayr, who was sentenced to a galley penalty in Genoa in 1612, despite the intercession of influential personalities , from which he was only released in 1617. A description of his time at sea can be found in a manuscript by Haslmayr in the Lower Saxony State Archives in Wolfenbüttel. He later lived in Augsburg, where a collection of choral works was also published.

In the proceedings against him, he openly admitted to deviating from Catholic teaching. He advocated a return to the early church without ordination and against the secularization of the church of his time. Just like the Catholic Church, however, he was also at a distance from Protestantism and its manifestations. He also brought ideas from Kabbalah and Paracelsian writings. According to Joachim Telle, he rejected humanistic scholarship, ridiculed it as Narristotle and wanted to draw knowledge only from the Bible and, as a result of Paracelsus, from nature. He called his new teaching Theophrastia Sancta .

He married Anna before 1587 (died 1615). One son Adam (around 1587-1665) was a teacher, metallurgist and alchemist in Hall and Wattens .

In Carlos Gilly's book there is also a list by Joachim Morsius ( Nuncius Olympicus ... From Secret Books , Philadelphia (= Amsterdam) 1626) of Haslmayr's manuscripts. There are some autographs , other writings are only known by title.

He appears as a literary figure in Gustav Meyrink's The Four Moon Brothers and in Walter Umminger's Das Winterkönigreich (1994).

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Also under the name of Paracelsus:

  • Astronomia Olympi Novi. Theologia Cabalistica , in: Philosophia mystica , Neustadt (= Frankfurt am Main), 1618
  • Character Cabalisticus , in: Liberius Benedictus (Hrsg.): Nucleus Sophicus , Frankfurt am Main 1623

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carlos Gilly (ed.), Cimelia Rhodostaurotica, Amsterdam 1995. Before that, 1560 was also given.
  2. ↑ Life data according to Joachim Telle, Killys Literaturlexikon
  3. ↑ Hannes Obermair : Early knowledge. Looking for pre-modern forms of knowledge in Bolzano and Tyrol . In: Hans Karl Peterlini (Ed.), Universitas Est. Vol. I: Essays on the history of education in Tyrol / South Tyrol from the Middle Ages to the Free University of Bozen . Bozen: Bozen / Bolzano University Press 2008, pp. 35-87, reference pp. 42f. (with illustration of the frontispiece).
  4. ^ Reply to the laudable brotherhood of the Theosophen vom Rosencrantz , discovered by Carlos Gilly in the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar and printed in facsimile in his book.
  5. ↑ Gilly (Ed.), Cimelia Rhodostaurotica, 1995
  6. ^ Telle, Killys Literaturlexikon
personal data
SURNAME Haslmayr, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Tyrolean theosophist and musician
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1562
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolzano
DATE OF DEATH after January 16, 1630
Place of death augsburg