Joséphin Péladan

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Joséphin Péladan
Péladan in the eccentric look of an Assyrian priest
Advertising poster for Péladan's Salon de la Rose + Croix .

Joséphin (Joseph) Péladan called "Sâr" Péladan (born March 28, 1858 near Lyon , † June 27, 1918 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) was a French writer and occultist . In 1888 he founded the Ordre Kabbalistique de la Rose-Croix in Paris with Stanislas de Guaita , but broke with Guaita in 1890 because of his satanic sentiments, and founded the Catholic Rosicrucian Order Ordre de la Rose-Croix Catholique .

Live and act

Péladan came from a traditional Catholic family in Lyon . His father was a teacher, published a Catholic and monarchist magazine and tried, among other things, to initiate a cult around the (hypothetical) 6th wound of Jesus . Péladan's oldest brother, Adrian, was a homeopath , Kabbalist and Orientalist. He dealt with mysticism and donated his large hermetic library to Joséphin.

After a brief employment contract with a Parisian bank company, Péladan traveled to Rome and Florence , where he dealt intensively with the works of Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance in his numerous writings and studies , and he also had a preference for the works of Miguel de Cervantes and Richard Wagner's music theater (primarily Parsifal ) and, according to Wagner's works, liked to dress in white tunics with sky-blue stripes.

In 1888 Péladan founded the Ordre Kabbalistique de la Rose-Croix ( Kabbalistic Rosicrucian Order ) with Stanislas de Guaita . Since Péladan soon felt repulsed by de Guaitas' satanic orientation and he was disturbed by the theosophical Indian influences, he began to combine his esoteric interests more with a Catholic piety, and in June 1890 founded a Rosicrucian order of Catholic provenance, the Ordre de la Rose -Croix Catholique et esthétique du Temple et du Graal .

In 1892, Péladan organized the first Rosicrucian gathering at the famous Durand-Ruel gallery in Paris . Artists such as Émile Bernard , Emil-Antoine Bourdelle , Jean Delville , Emile Fabry , Ferdinand Hodler , Fernand Khnopff and Georges Minne take part in the annual exhibitions from 1892 to 1897, called “Salon de la Rose-Croix” . Out of love and admiration for his second wife, the art critic Christiane Taylor , Péladan soon renounced his eccentric lifestyle and rarely went public. In 1908 Péladan was awarded the Prix Charles Blanc for his life's work by the Académie française . Joséphin Péladan died almost forgotten in Paris in 1918.

Works (selection)

  • Le Vice suprême , (German: The highest vice ), first volume of La Décadence Latine , novel 1884
  • Curieuse, 1885
  • L'Initiation sentimentale, 1887
  • Isthar, 1888
  • Comment on devient mage, 1891
  • Babylone, tragédie, 1895
  • Le Prince de Byzance, tragedy, 1896
  • Œdipe et le Sphinx, tragédie en prose, 1903
  • Sémiramis, tragédie en prose, 1904
  • La Dernière Leçon de Léonard de Vinci, essai, 1904
  • De Parsifal à don Quichotte, essai, 1906

Translations

  • Peladan: The almighty gold. Roman, translated into German by Emil Schering. 3. Edition. Georg Müller Verlag, Munich 1918, DNB 36363973X .

literature

  • Grete Wehmeyer: Erik Satie. Gustav Bosse Verlag, Regensburg 1974, ISBN 3-7649-2077-7 . (Studies on the History of Music in the 19th Century, Volume 36)
  • Jacques Lethève: Les Salons de la Rose-Croix. In: Gazette des Beaux-Arts , Vol. 56, 1960, pp. 363-374.
  • Robert Pincus-Witten: Occult Symbolism in France. Joséphin Péladan and the Salons de la Rose-Croix. Garland Publishing, New York 1976, ISBN 0-8240-2003-0 .
  • Christophe Beaufils: Le Sâr Péladan. Biography critique. Aux amateurs de livres, Paris 1986, ISBN 2-905053-19-4 .
  • Rainer Rutkowski: Literature, art and religion in the fin de siècle. Investigations into the work of “Sâr” Péladan (1858–1918). Dissertation. Bonn 1989, DNB 891546812 .
  • Isa Bickmann: Leonardism and Symbolist Aesthetics. A contribution to the history of Leonardo da Vinci's impact in Paris and Brussels. Frankfurt 1999, ISBN 3-631-34146-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Ordre Kabbalistique de la Rose-Croix in: Material for the book: New Rosicrucians by Harald Lamprecht .
  2. ↑ An overview of the participants in: R. Pincus-Witten: Occult Symbolism in France. Joséphin Péladan and the Salons de la Rose-Croix. New York 1976, p. 217.

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personal data
SURNAME Péladan, Joséphin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Péladan, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyon
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1918
Place of death Neuilly-sur-Seine