Wilhelm Christoph Kriegsmann

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Title page of a treatise on the Tabula Smaragdina from 1657

Wilhelm Christoph Kriegsmann (* 1633 in Barchfeld , † September 29, 1679 in Mannheim ) was a chamber councilor in Darmstadt , a pietist and author of hermetic writings.

Kriegsmann was a son of the administrator Alexander Veit Kriegsmann. He studied from 1650 in Jena and from 1653 in Helmstedt . He attended Spener's Frankfurt Collegium pietatis and was friends with Johann Winckler .

Kriegsmann was involved in the dispute over the Darmstadt conventicles . He had defended the pietistic conventicles with the argument that obviously Christ himself had held meetings outside the temple and thus approved them. Thereupon the church authorities requested an expert opinion directed against him, which was drawn up by the Darmstadt superintendent Balthasar Mentzer .

Fonts

  • Symphonesis Christianorum or Tractat of the individual and private gatherings of Christians, which Christ used to hold next to the congregation or church assemblies. Leipzig 1689.
  • Conjectaneorum de Germanicae gentis origine [...] liber unus. Tübingen 1684. Digitized .
  • Theopraxia, or evangelical exercise of Christianity. Darmstadt 1681.
  • Qabbālā or: the true and correct Cabalah. Frankfurt & Leipzig, 1774. Reprint 1992, digitized .
  • Pantosophiae sacro-profanae a Raymundo Lullio in artem redactae nunc elimatae ac locupletatae tabula cum synoptica in eandem introductione. Speyer 1670. Digitized
  • Taaut Or interpretation of the chemical symbols so that metals and other things are noticed from ages. Gotze, Frankfurt 1665.
  • Hermetis Trismegisti Phoenicum, Aegyptorum, sed et aliarum gentium monarchae conditoris ??? sive Tabula Smaragdina. 1657.
  • De attrito per papas imperio deque pontificatu from Imp [eratore] Caesare ecclesiae reique publicae causâ capessendo. s. l. 1671 digitized .

literature

  • Mike A. Zuber: Between Alchemy and Pietism: Wilhelm Christoph Kriegsmann's Philological Quest for Ancient Wisdom. In: Correspondences: Online Journal for the Academic Study of Western Esotericism. Vol. 2, No. 1 (2014), pp. 67-104, online .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Gierl: Pietism and Enlightenment. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1997, ISBN 3-525-35438-X , p. 44.
personal data
SURNAME Warrior, Wilhelm Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Warrior, toilet; Kriegsmannus, Wilhelmus Christophorus; Kriegsmannus, W. Chr .; Warrior, Wilhelm-Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pietist and hermetic
DATE OF BIRTH 1633
PLACE OF BIRTH Barchfeld
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1679
Place of death Mannheim