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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 neo-Platonism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa has received more than 945,126 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa is the 11th most popular occultist, the 343rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 316th 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 11 out of 37Before him are Helena Blavatsky, Count of St. Germain, Aleister Crowley, Alessandro Cagliostro, Anton LaVey, and Allan Kardec. After him are Éliphas Lévi, Joachim of Fiore, Edgar Cayce, Gérard Encausse, Guido von List, and Edward Kelley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1486, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa ranks 3Before him are Arthur, Prince of Wales and Andrea del Sarto. After him are Jacopo Sansovino, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Sher Shah Suri, Charles III, Duke of Savoy, Francysk Skaryna, Gerolamo Emiliani, Ahuitzotl, Johann Eck, and Martin Agricola. Among people deceased in 1535, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa ranks 2Before him is Thomas More. After him are Francesco II Sforza, Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād, Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg, Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, Lorenzo Costa, Ippolito de' Medici, John Fisher, Gustav Trolle, and Bartolomeo Tromboncino.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa ranks 343 out of 6,142Before him are Frederick I of Sweden (1676), Christian III of Denmark (1503), Carl Bosch (1874), Ludolph van Ceulen (1540), Franz Mesmer (1734), and Fritz Sauckel (1894). After him are Katharina von Bora (1498), Theodor Schwann (1810), Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1776), Isabeau of Bavaria (1370), Karl Drais (1785), and Ludwig III of Bavaria (1845).

Among OCCULTISTS In Germany

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