Raphael Eglin

Monogrammist S: Raphael Eglin, 1603

Raphael Eglin , Latinized Eglinus, (born December 28, 1559 in Russikon , Canton Zurich , † August 20, 1622 in Marburg ) was a Swiss Reformed theologian and alchemist.

Live and act

Eglin was the son of a preacher in Zurich, went to school in Chur and Chiavenna and studied with Théodore de Bèze in Geneva and with Johann Jakob Grynaeus in Basel . After his studies he was a teacher in Sonders in the Valtellina until he was expelled by the Counter Reformation in 1586 . Then he was a teacher in Winterthur and from 1588 at the alumni in Zurich. Later he was professor of theology, deacon and archdeacon at the Grossmünster in Zurich.

He was a follower of the Rosicrucians and alchemy , based on a preoccupation with the apocalypse . He got into debt for his alchemical experiments and had to flee Zurich in 1601. His friends helped him to an honorable farewell in Zurich, and he went to Kassel , where Landgrave Moritz supported him as a friend of alchemy. He became a teacher in Kassel and in 1606 a professor of theology in Marburg. The landgrave bought his alchemical laboratory from him and was in correspondence with him. In 1607 he received his doctorate in theology and in 1614 court preacher in Marburg.

In addition to theological writings (published under Raphael Eglinus Iconius), he published a book about Giordano Bruno in 1609 , about the Rosicrucians in 1618 and also a prophecy (Prophetia halieutica) about herring captured in Norway in 1598 , which according to Eglin revealed the secrets of Revelation . Such herring prophecies were popular at the time (they appeared as early as 1587) and concerned written messages supposedly found in the fish.

As an alchemist he published as Nicolaus Niger Hapelius (an anagram by Raphael Eglinus Iconius, also Happelius). Several of these writings are printed in the Theatrum Chemicum .

Descendants are Commerzienrat Gustav Jung and Friedrich Schmidt-Ott .

Fonts

Prophetia Halieutica nova et admiranda, ad Danielis et sacrae apocalypseos calculum chronographicum, divina ope nunc primum in lucem productum, revocata (German: Newe Meerwunderische Prophecey, based on Danielis and the Revelation Johannis Zeytrechnung ), Zurich, 1598
Chemisches Handbüchlein , in: Compound manuscript: Paracelsus, Isaac Hollandus, Alexander von Suchten, Raphael Egli: Chemical and medical recipes. Spells and Curiosa
Disquisitio de Helia Artista , Marburg 1608

Web links

Julius August Wagenmann: Eglin, Raphael . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 678 f.
Works by and about Raphael Eglin in the German Digital Library
Andreas Marti: Raphael Egli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

↑ Jonathan Green: Gone fishing: the herring prophecies of 1587 .
↑ Jürgen Brummack: Natural magic, magnetism, alchemy. Jean Paul's Comet . In: Nicola Kaminski u. a .: Hermetics. Literary figurations between Babylon and cyberspace (investigations on German literary history; 113). Niemeyer, Tübingen 2002, p. 155, ISBN 3-484-32113-X .

personal data
SURNAME	Eglin, Raphael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Egli, Raphael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss Reformed theologian and alchemist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 28, 1559
PLACE OF BIRTH	Russikon
DATE OF DEATH	August 20, 1622
Place of death	Marburg

[1] Jonathan Green: Gone fishing: the herring prophecies of 1587 .

[2] Jürgen Brummack: Natural magic, magnetism, alchemy. Jean Paul's Comet . In: Nicola Kaminski u. a .: Hermetics. Literary figurations between Babylon and cyberspace (investigations on German literary history; 113). Niemeyer, Tübingen 2002, p. 155, ISBN 3-484-32113-X .