Ernst Tristan Kurtzahn
Ernst Tristan Kurtzahn (* 29. November 1879 in Königsberg , † 1939 in Hamburg ) was a ship - engineer , teacher , Freemasons in the St. John's Lodge Boanerges for brotherly love , a member of the Ordo Templi Orientis , Author , Kabbalist and Tarot researchers .
In 1915, inspired by Gustav Meyrink's novel Der Golem (Chapter 10. The Light ), Kurtzahn began to be interested in the tarot, but found no German-language literature on the tarot, except for a small entry on tarot in a playing card book .
Because of the First World War , he had no way of obtaining books by French or English occultists . The esotericist Dr. Hummel, who wanted to write about the Tarot himself, granted Kurtzahn free access to his collection of French occultists. Based on the works of Etteilla, Papus and Éliphas Lévi Kurtzahn published the book Der Tarot, the kabbalistic method of future research as the key to occultism at Talisverlag in Leipzig in 1920, the first German-language book on the tarot, together with a tarot designed by him, also the first esoteric tarot in German language.
From 1924 Kurtzahn is listed among other things with the synonym Eklesiarch in the Gnostic Catholic Church .
literature
- Ernst Tristan Kurtzahn The Tarot , Schikowski, R (1983), ISBN 3877020585
- Ernst Tristan Kurtzahn The Rosicrucians , Jaspers, Frank; Edition: 3rd, chang. Ed. (February 20, 2004), ISBN 3980938921
- Horst E. Miers Lexicon of Secret Knowledge , Goldmann-Verlag Munich (Random House), ISBN 3442121795
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kurtzahn, Ernst Tristan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Shipbuilding engineer, teacher, freemason at the Johannis Lodge "Boanerges zur Bruderliebe" |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Königsberg (Prussia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1939 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |