OCCULTIST

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

1486 - 1535

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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (; German: [aˈgʀɪpa]; 14 September 1486 – 18 February 1535) was a German Renaissance polymath, physician, legal scholar, soldier, knight, theologian, and occult writer. Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy published in 1533 drew heavily upon Kabbalah, Hermeticism, and Neoplatonism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa has received more than 1,003,317 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa is the 9th most popular occultist (up from 11th in 2019), the 370th most popular biography from Germany (down from 343rd in 2019) and the most popular German Occultist.

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa is most famous for his three volume work on the occult, De Occulta Philosophia.

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Among OCCULTISTS

Among occultists, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa ranks 9 out of 41. Before him are John Dee, Baba Vanga, Helena Blavatsky, Aleister Crowley, Count of St. Germain, and Alessandro Cagliostro. After him are Allan Kardec, Éliphas Lévi, Joachim of Fiore, Edgar Cayce, Anton LaVey, and Gérard Encausse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1486, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa ranks 2. Before him is Andrea del Sarto. After him are Arthur, Prince of Wales, Jacopo Sansovino, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Sher Shah Suri, Charles III, Duke of Savoy, Francysk Skaryna, Martin Agricola, Gerolamo Emiliani, Ahuitzotl, and Domenico di Pace Beccafumi. Among people deceased in 1535, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa ranks 2. Before him is Thomas More. After him are Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād, Francesco II Sforza, Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg, Lorenzo Costa, John Fisher, Ippolito de' Medici, Gustav Trolle, and Bartolomeo Tromboncino.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa ranks 370 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernst Thälmann (1886), Wilhelm Maybach (1846), Samuel Hahnemann (1755), Joachim Gauck (1940), Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791), and Duchess Helene in Bavaria (1834). After him are Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883), Hans Lippershey (1570), Chlodio (393), Peter Behrens (1868), Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787), and Joachim Löw (1960).

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Among OCCULTISTS In Germany

Among occultists born in Germany, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa ranks 1. After him are Otto Witte (1872).

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