Carlos Gilly

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Carlos Gilly Ortiz (born November 19, 1940 in Mora , Toledo province ) is a Spanish historian who is particularly concerned with the history of the early Rosicrucian movement, the Paracelsus School and alchemy .

Life

Carlos Gilly is the son of a car mechanic and a dressmaker. He attended primary school in Mora and then completed the Conciliar Seminar in Toledo . From 1966 to 1971 he studied history (with Werner Kaegi , among others ), philosophy (with Kurt Rossmann ) and Spanish (with Germán Colón ) at the University of Basel . From 1972 to 1979 he worked as an antiquarian . In 1979 he obtained his licentiate with a thesis on Theodor Zwinger .

In 1985 he received his doctorate under Hans Rudolf Guggisberg with a thesis on Spain and book printing in Basel in the 16th century. For this he was awarded the Jakob Burckhardt Medal from the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Foundation in Basel. From 1985 to 2008 he worked as a scientific librarian at the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica in Amsterdam. In this context he visited numerous libraries in Europe in search of rare manuscripts and books from the hermetic environment and from alchemy, gnostics, magic, radical Reformation movements and Kabbalah. There he organized exhibitions (some of which were also shown in Florence, Venice, Wolfenbüttel and Moscow) and edited edited volumes. In 1996 he completed his habilitation at the University of Basel (via Adam Haslmayr ) and was a private lecturer in general and Swiss history there until 2004. After retiring in Basel, he continued to work at the Bibliotheca Hermetica.

Among other things, he dealt with early book printing and publishers in Basel in the 16th century (such as Pietro Perna ), Adam Haslmayr, Matteo Gribaldi , Heinrich Khunrath , Jacob Böhme , Baruch de Spinoza , Theodor Zwinger (for work on Zwinger he received the Jacob- Burckhardt Medal of the Goethe Foundation Basel), Johann Arndt , Paracelsus, the Rosicrucians (e.g. connection to Tommaso Campanella , Johann Amos Comenius , connections to Russia, Johann Valentin Andreae ), Johannes Oporinus , Guillaume Postel , Sebastian Castellio , Antonio de Nebrija (and Erasmus von Rotterdam ) and Juan de Valdés (studies on Valdés as translator and commentator on Martin Luther ) and the intellectual history of hermetics .

He was instrumental in assigning the early Rosicrucian movement to the group of scholars around Tobias Hess , Christoph Besold and Valentin Andreae in Tübingen and thus refuted older theories such as those of Frances Yates , who suspected connections to England in particular.

Gilly contributed to the catalog of dated manuscripts in Switzerland founded by Albert Bruckner in Latin from the beginning of the Middle Ages to 1500.

Fonts

  • Spain and the Basler Buchdruck up to 1600. A cross-section through the Spanish intellectual history from the point of view of a European printing city (= Basel contributions to historical science. Vol. 151). Helbing and Lichtenhahn, Basel / Frankfurt am Main 1985 (dissertation).
  • Adam Haslmayr (1562-1631). The first herald of the Rosicrucians. With the facsimile reproduction of the "Answer to the laudable Brothers of the Theosophen vom RosenCreutz" from 1612 and the list of Haslmayr's works in the "Nuncius Olympicus" from 1626. Pelikaan, Amsterdam / Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart 1994.
  • Paracelsus in the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica Amsterdam. Exhibition for the 500th year of the birth of Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus. Pelikaan, Amsterdam 1993.
  • The manuscripts in the library of Johannes Oporinus. List of the manuscripts and print templates confiscated in Basel after Oporin's death (July 7th, 1568) with a detailed description of the copies still available today (= publications of the Basel University Library. Vol. 3). Schwabe, Basel 2001.

Editorships (with own contributions):

  • Johann Valentin Andreae. The manifestos of the Rosicrucian Brotherhood 1586–1986, catalog of an exhibition of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica (= Hermes. Vol. 3). Pelikaan, Amsterdam 1986.
  • 500 Years of Gnosis in Europe / 500 let gnostica v Evrope. Exhibition of printed Books and Manuscripts from the Gnostic Tradition Moscow & St Petersburg, Organized by Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica / MI Rudomino Russian State Library for Foreign Literature. Pelikaan, Amsterdam 1993.
  • with Sebastiano Gentile: Marsilio Ficino e il ritorno di Ermete Trismegisto / Marsilio Ficino and the return of Hermes Trismegistus. Centro Di, Florence 1999/2001.
  • Cimelia Rhodostaurotica. The Rosicrucians as reflected in the manuscripts and prints created between 1610 and 1660. Exhibition by the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica Amsterdam and the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel. Pelikaan, Amsterdam 1995.
  • with Friedrich Niewöhner : Rosenkreuz as a European phenomenon in the 17th century. Files for the 35th Wolfenbüttel Symposium. Pelikaan, Amsterdam / Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart 2001.
    • In it by Carlos Gilly: The Rosicrucians as a European phenomenon in the 17th century and the winding paths of research. Pp. 19-56; Campanella and the Rosicrucians. Pp. 190-211; Abraham von Franckenberg and the Rosicrucians. On the dating of the Tabula Universalis Theosophica Mystica et Cabalistica from 1623. pp. 212–233; The “Lion of Midnight”, the “Eagle” and the “End Christian”: The political, religious and chiliastic journalism in the pamphlets, illustrated leaflets and folk songs of the Thirty Years' War. Pp. 234-266.
  • with Cis van Heertum: Magia, alchimia, scienza dal '400 al' 700: L'influsso di Ermete Trismegisto / Magic, alchemy and science 15th – 18th centuries: The influence of Hermes Trismegistus (= Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica ). 2 volumes. Centro Di, Florence 2002.

Essays:

  • Between experience and speculation: Theodor Zwinger and the religious and cultural crisis of his time. In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde 77 (1977), pp. 57-137; 79 (1979), pp. 125–233 (digital copies: part 1; PDF; 9.3 MB ; part 2; PDF; 10.2 MB )
  • From the Egyptian Hermes to Trismegistus Germanus. Changes in Hermetism in Paracelsist and Rosicrucian Literature. In: Peter-André Alt , Volkhard Wels (Hrsg.): Concepts of Hermetism in the literature of the early modern period. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, pp. 71–132.
  • Paracelsus's commitment to gnosis up to the pupils of Jacob Boehme. In: Roelof van den Broek, Cis van Heertum (Ed.): From Poemandres to Jacob Böhme. Gnosis, Hermetism and the Christian Tradition. Pelikaan, Amsterdam 2000, 385-425.

He is working on the Bibliographia Rosicruciana, which is divided into 6 volumes . European literature on the Rosicrucians of the 17th and 18th centuries (Pelikaan, Amsterdam).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information in his dissertation
  2. ↑ Gilly, Between Experience and Speculation. Theodor Zwinger and the religious and cultural crisis of his time, part 1,2, in: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde, Volume 77, 1977, pp. 57-137, 125-223
  3. ↑ Roland Kany Superius sicut inferius, review by Gilly (ed.), Rosenkreuz as a European phenomenon in the 17th century, 2002, FAZ Feuilleton, June 24, 2002
  4. ^ 3 volumes, Dietikon-Zürich, Urs Graf Verlag, 1977-1986
personal data
SURNAME Gilly, Carlos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gilly Ortiz, Carlos (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Mora , Toledo Province