Bernhard Joseph Schleiss

Bernhard Joseph Schleiß von Löwenfeld, (also Schleis and Schleiss ; born March 24, 1731 in Lauterecken ; died December 9, 1800 in Sulzbach ) was an Electoral Palatinate court and medical councilor and city physician in Sulzbach and author of Masonic - Rosicrucian writings. He is counted among the main members of the Order of the Gold and Rosicrucians in its first phase.

family

Bernhard Joseph Schleiß comes from the family of the royal court chancellor Jacob Schleiß, who was raised to imperial nobility on October 10, 1630 under the name "von Löwenfeld". A Bavarian nobility confirmation for the descendants took place on January 26, 1818 in Munich.

life and work

Schleiß studied medicine in Heidelberg , where he received his doctorate in 1757. In 1758 he took part in the Seven Years' War as a field medic . He was then appointed city and country physicist in Sulzbach and personal physician to Duchess Maria Franziska , electoral medical advisor and finally, in 1760, elector Karl Theodor appointed him to court palatinate.

He is the author of two important defensive documents of the Gold and Rosicrucians.

The first of these writings was directed against a treatise by Johann Jacob Moser under the title On Patience of Freemason Societies; especially in consideration of the Westphalian Friden in 1776. Under the pseudonym Carl Hubert Lobreich von Plumenoek, Schleiss published in 1777 the writing Ge Offenbarterffekt in the general welfare of the states of the genuine Freymäurerey proven from the true end purpose of their original foundation, and the writing of the Royal Danish Etaatsraths Johann Jacob Mosers, opposed by the tolerance of the Freymäurer societies, especially with the intention of the Peace of Westphalia .
In 1782 Schleiss published Rosenkreutzer, shining in the light of truth, under the pseudonym Phoebron . The latter text with the subtitle “all dear fellow men, also for the benefit of Magister Pianco” was a public response of the order to the polemic The Rosicrucian in his nakedness: For the benefit of the states put down by doubts against the true wisdom of the so-called real Freemasons or Golden Rosenkreutzer of the old system / by Magister Pianco, relatives in many circles (Amsterdam [= Bauer, Nürnberg] 1781). Hans Karl von Ecker und Eckhoffen , who was excluded from the order in 1780, hid behind the pseudonym Pianco .

The name Phoebron used by Schleiß as a pseudonym appears in the order files as the order name of a chief director of the southern German organizational area. It is difficult to determine exactly when Schleiß had which position in the order. On the one hand it appears "excluded" or tolerated, then again as an exponent of the " Sulzbach Circle " and thus of the order in the time between the Reformations of 1767 and 1777 and for its peculiar combination of alchemy, theosophy , Kabbalah , Freemasonry, which then again such Catholicising trains had that Knigge led, the annulled in gold and Rosicrucians a front organization Jesuit suggest.

Other writings by Schleiß deal with the work of the pastor, miracle healer and exorcist Johann Joseph Gaßner , who was invited by Schleiss to Sulzbach to practice his cures there, and who was defended by him against Lavater's criticism .

Fonts

Treatise from Podagra. Monath, Nuremberg 1767.

Calendarium felix Rheni et Albis, seu Saxonica Palatinae sociata domui in Amalia Augusta iuncta Friderico sponsa. Lichtenthaler, Sulzbach 1769 (wedding poem to Friedrich August III. , Elector of Saxony and Maria Amalia of Pfalz-Zweibrücken ).

Thorough investigation of their Sauerbrunnen, especially the one at Grossalbertshof not far from the residence town of Sulzbach ... newly discovered Heylbrunn. Sulzbach 1770, digitized .

The impartial doctor's reflections on Herr Lavater's reasons for investigating their Gassnerian cures. Along with an appendix of convulsions. Sulzbach 1775.

Impartial thoughts or something in front of the doctors from the Kurart des Tit. Heern Gassner in Ellwangen. Ed. Of Doct. Schisel [= Schleis]. Wizgallic writings, Schalbuz [= Sulzbach] 1775.

Questions of doubt to Tit. Doctor Samuel Semmler zu Halle, about the collections of the Gassner necromancy. Galwitz, Sulzbach 1776.

(as Carl Hubert Lobreich von Plumenoek) Revealed influence in the general welfare of the states of the genuine Freymäurerey proved from the true end purpose of their original foundation, and the writing of the Royal. Danish Etaatsraths Johann Jacob Mosers, from the tolerance of the Freymäurer societies, especially with the intention of the Peace of Westphalia, opposed, including the clear and clear instruction to outlaw the true Rosenkreutzer astrapowder, and for the good of the common being against almost all diseases use. Amsterdam [= Nuremberg] 1777, digitized .

(as Phoebron) Rosenkreutzer who shines in the light of truth. Leipzig, Hilscher 1782, digitized version .

Contributions to Gaßner's stay and character in Sulzbach 1776. Augsburg 1788.

Family calendar of the most noble ore house Palatinate Wittelsbach for the double jubilee and leap year 1792: on that day of the whole year the birth and death list of all ancestors and propagators of this noble ore house can be found, along with attached tables of all the highest and high houses of Europe and German donors with whom the most transparent ore house is connected through blood friendship, ancestral relationship and incorporation: with a short biography of the first jubilant regent Palatine Ehrenfried. Seidl, Sulzbach 1792.

Sulzbach's wonderfully prophesied growth on the most solemn wedding day of the most noble prince and gentleman, Mr. Carl Theodors Pfalzgrafen beiy Rhein ... with the most noble princess and women, women Maria Anna Leopoldina ... through a true story and in the year 1718 by the son of the most noble duchess Maria Eleonora Face observed in the Sulzbach residence. Seidl, Sulzbach 1795.

literature

Karl RH Frick : The Enlightened (Part 1). Academic Printing and Publishing Company, Graz 1973, ISBN 3-201-00834-6 .
Renko D. Geffarth: Religion and Arcane Hierarchy. The Order of the Gold and Rosicrucians as a secret church in the 18th century. Brill, Leiden 2007, ISBN 978-90-04-15667-8 .

Individual evidence

↑ Adelslexikon Vol. VIII, arr. v. Walter v. Hueck. Limburg 2001 (Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels 125), p. 468.
↑ Frick: The Enlightened Part 1. Graz 1973, p. 337 f.
↑ Geffarth: Religion and Arcane Hierarchy. Leiden 2007, p. 163.
↑ cf. Weller: The wrong and fictitious print locations. Vol. 1, p. 2. 117.
↑ Geffarth: Religion and Arcane Hierarchy. Leiden 2007, p. 167.
↑ Georg Forster wrote in a letter to Soemmering in January 1788 that Schleiss' "was all about mirror-fencing to put an end to all investigation". Quoted in: Frick: Die Enlightened Part 1. Graz 1973, p. 348.
↑ Cf. Frick: The Enlightened Part 1. Graz 1973, p. 335.

personal data
SURNAME	Schleiss, Bernhard Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schleiss von Löwenfeld, Bernhard Joseph (full name); Plumenoek, Carl Hubert Lobreich von (pseudonym); Phoebron (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Electoral Palatinate doctor and freemason
DATE OF BIRTH	March 24, 1731
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lauterecken
DATE OF DEATH	December 9, 1800
Place of death	Sulzbach

[1] Adelslexikon Vol. VIII, arr. v. Walter v. Hueck. Limburg 2001 (Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels 125), p. 468.

[2] Frick: The Enlightened Part 1. Graz 1973, p. 337 f.

[3] Geffarth: Religion and Arcane Hierarchy. Leiden 2007, p. 163.

[4] . Weller: The wrong and fictitious print locations. Vol. 1, p. 2. 117.

[5] Geffarth: Religion and Arcane Hierarchy. Leiden 2007, p. 167.

[6] Georg Forster wrote in a letter to Soemmering in January 1788 that Schleiss' "was all about mirror-fencing to put an end to all investigation". Quoted in: Frick: Die Enlightened Part 1. Graz 1973, p. 348.

[7] Cf. Frick: The Enlightened Part 1. Graz 1973, p. 335.