Dionysius Andreas Freher

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Dionysius Andreas Freher (born September 12, 1649 in Nuremberg ; died December 5, 1728 in London ) was a Protestant theologian and commentator on Jakob Boehmes .

Life

Freher studied theology in Altdorf from 1663 and in Heidelberg from 1667 , where he took the exam for Theologus pro Ministerio . In 1677 Dreher traveled from Amsterdam to Arkhangelsk and came to Moscow , where he stayed until 1684. Returning to Nuremberg in 1685, he soon traveled via Holland to London , where he lived from then on as a private scholar and came into contact with Jane Leade and the doctor Francis Lee (1661–1719), leading members of the Philadelphian Society , a group of Protestant supporters founded by Leade Jakob Boehmes.

Freher wrote extensive commentaries on Boehme's works. In England, Freher's commentaries exerted a significant influence on William Law (1686–1761), the theologian, theosophist, and translator Boehme who was introduced to the Philadelphian Society after Freher's death in the early 1730s . Law used some of the emblematic drawings made by JD Leuchter for Freher's writings to illustrate his Böhme edition. These diagrams also influenced Franz von Baader's interpretation of Böhme .

The manuscripts of Freher's writings are now in the British Library and in the Dr. Williams's Library in London, where Christopher Walton's theosophical library is also kept.

Fonts

Manuscripts
  • Fundamenta mystica Jacobi Behmen Teutonici. 8 Vols. (A-H) 1698-1705, OCLC 35257417 .
    • A. Of God, considered as in himself only; Of the 2 eternal principles; Of the 7 properties of eternal nature; Of darkness, fire and light, & c.
    • B. An explanation of a table of JB considering God as with out nature and creation; A discourse about the desire's attracting itself; Of the creation of angels, and material causes; Of the Fall of Lucifer
    • C. Of the creation of this third or temporal principle of nature, wherein we live and have our outward being
    • D. Of the Fall of Man; Of the natural propagation…; Of man's regeneration ...
    • E. Of the eternal Word's becoming flesh, of the pure, Immaculate-conception, and Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary
    • F. A discourse of nothing and something, occasioned by one Mr. Pierce ...
    • G. Positions concerning God in unity & trinity; General positions from form.…; That there are not two trinites. ...; Five questions answered ...; Concerning darkness in God…; Two questions answerd [sic]…; A conference between A & B…; Eternal liberty & abyssal unity…; Process in the philosophical work…; The growing of vegetables ...
    • H. Critical corrections of Rev. E. Waple's Exercises upon the philosophy and theology of JB ...
  • Hieroglyphica sacra, or divine emblems in thirteen figures with explanations. 1703. 1710.
  • Three tables with explanations. 1703. 1710 (German version: Drei Tafeln. 1717).
  • Thirty propositions. 1703.
  • Immanuel. 1704.
  • The substance of a conference betwixt a German theosophist, and an English divine. OCLC 35257419 .
  • Sixteen conferences between A and B concerning the modern doctrine of predestination. ca.1715 , OCLC 35257413 .
  • Some conferences between Adam, Blessed, and Constantine. 1716.
  • Paradoxa, emblemata, aenigmatica, hieroglyphica, de uno, toto, puncto, centro. 1717-1720. Excerpts in: The Jacob Boehme Society Quarterly 1 (1953/1954) and 6 (1958/1959).
  • Against the doctrine of the return of the devil and the damned. 1718.
  • Of good and bad. 1720.
  • Letters.
expenditure

literature

  • John Byrom: Shortland Journal. Manchester 1854.
  • Evan Lewis Evans: Boehme's contribution to the english speaking world. Dissertation Kiel 1956.
  • Serge Hutin: Les disciples anglais de Jacob Boehme. Paris 1960.
  • Charles Arthur Musès : Illumination on Jacob Boehme. The work of Dionysius Andreas Freher. New York 1951.
  • Marsha Newman: ' Milton's Track' revisited: visual analogues to Blake's vortex in the 'Law edition' of Boehme. In: Interdisciplinary literary Studies 5 (2004), pp. 73–93.
  • Ann Judith Penny: Studies in Jacob Boehme. London 1912.
  • Roland Pietsch: Freher. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Ed. De Gruyter, Berlin 2008, vol. 3, p. 557 f.
  • Wilhelm Struck: The influence of Jacob Boehmes on the English literature of the 17th century. Berlin 1936.
  • Nils Thune: The Behmenists and the Philadelphians. A contribution to the study of English mysticism in the 17th and 18th centuries. Uppsala 1948.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William Law: The works of Jacob Behmen, the Teutonic theosopher ... To which is prefixed, the life of the author. With figures, illustrating his principles, left by the Reverend William Law. 4 vols. London 1762–1781.
  2. ^ Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke : The Western Esoteric Traditions. A Historical Introduction. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2008, ISBN 0199717567 , p. 100.
personal data
SURNAME Freher, Dionysius Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant theologian and commentator Jacob Boehmes
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1649
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1728
Place of death London