Johannes Bureus

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Johannes Bureus, 1627
Bureus' drawing of the lost rune stone U 439

Johannes Thomae Agrivillensis Bureus (born March 15/25, 1568 in Åkerby ; † October 22, 1652 in Bondkyrka ; actually: Johan Bure , also known as Johannes Buraeus ) was a Swedish rune researcher , mystic , royal archivist and writer.

Life

Bureus was born in Åkerby near Uppsala in March 1568 as the son of the Lutheran pastor Thomas Mattiae and Magdalena Burea.

He attended schools in Uppsala and Stockholm and later studied in Germany and Italy. In 1591 he married Margaretha Mårtensdotter Bång. From her brother, who would be executed for sorcery on January 15, 1603, he received the book Arbatel De magia veterum , translated by Agrippa , that year , which deals with occultism and magic and subsequently began seriously for Kabbalah and the Rosicrucians to be interested. He had already started to learn Hebrew in 1584, but had not pursued it any further beforehand.

In the area of Uppsala were rune stones quite often to be found. Bureus was fascinated by their design and began trying to decipher them around 1593. In 1599 he received from King Charles IX. the order to examine and catalog the rune stones of the country. In 1602 he published his first book on his research - Monumenta veterum Gothorum in patria , in 1611 a little book ( Runa-ABC-boken ) was published in which he presented a set of runes he had developed and instructions for reading the runes . In his books on rune stones there are many stones that are now often found in stone walls and structures. For some of the stones - like stone U 439 - these books are the only remaining evidence of their earlier existence.

In 1603 Bureus became the royal archivist and teacher of the princes Gustav II Adolf and Karl Filip , which later also had a great influence on Gustav Adolf after he became king in 1611.

In 1630 Gustav Adolf Johan Bureus transferred the newly created task of the Riksantikvarie (imperial antiquarian). Gustav Adolf created the first state preservation of monuments in the world. Johan Bureus had the task of inventorying runestones, burial mounds and ruins and ensuring that they were preserved. The office still exists today. The legal basis was only created after Bureus' death in 1666 and represents the oldest monument conservation law in the world.

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  • Monumenta veterum Gothorum in Patria , 1602
  • Runa-ABC-boken , 1611
  • Ara Foederis Therapici , 1616
  • FaMa e sCanzIa ReDUX , 1616
  • Monumenta Sveogothica Hactentus Exculpta , 1624
  • Adulruna Rediviva

literature

  • Susanna Åkerman: Rose Cross Over The Baltic , 1998, Brill Academic Publishers, 264 pages, ISBN 90-04-11030-5
  • Susanna Åkerman: The Gothic Kabbalah: Johannes Bureus, Runic Theosophy and Northern Apocalypticism in The Expulsion Of The Jews - 1492 and after , 1994, Garland, ISBN 0-8153-1681-X
  • Stephen Edred Flowers : Johannes Bureus and Adalruna , 1998, Rûna Raven Press
  • Thomas Karlsson: Adulruna and the Gothic Kabbalah , 2007, Red Drache Edition, 144 pages, ISBN 978-3939459040

Web links

Commons : Johannes Bureus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ Arbatel De magia veterum
personal data
SURNAME Bureus, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bure, Johan; Bureus, Johannes Thomae Agrivillensis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish court archivist, rune researcher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1568 or March 25, 1568
PLACE OF BIRTH Åkerby
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1652
Place of death Bondkyrka