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Johannes Valentinus Andreae

1586 - 1654

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Johannes Valentinus Andreae (17 August 1586 – 27 June 1654), a.k.a. Johannes Valentinus Andreä or Johann Valentin Andreae, was a German theologian, who claimed to be the author of an ancient text known as the Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz anno 1459 (published in 1616, Strasbourg; in English Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz in 1459). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johannes Valentinus Andreae has received more than 121,477 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Johannes Valentinus Andreae is the 1,024th most popular writer (up from 1,034th in 2019), the 1,009th most popular biography from Germany (down from 967th in 2019) and the 64th most popular German Writer.

Johannes Valentinus Andreae, also known as Valentin Andreae, was a German theologian and alchemist. He is most famous for being the author of the book Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz, which was published in 1616.

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Among writers, Johannes Valentinus Andreae ranks 1,024 out of 5,755. Before him are James Hadley Chase, Iris Murdoch, Bar Hebraeus, Julien Green, Derek Walcott, and Bernhard Schlink. After him are Ernst Toller, Ľudovít Štúr, Egill Skallagrímsson, Shoko Asahara, Bāṇabhaṭṭa, and Jerome K. Jerome.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1586, Johannes Valentinus Andreae ranks 3. Before him are Rose of Lima and Leopold V, Archduke of Austria. After him are Pietro Della Valle, Johann Schein, Francesco IV Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Duchess Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia, Théophraste Renaudot, Jan Wildens, Pau Claris i Casademunt, John Ford, and Niccolò Zucchi. Among people deceased in 1654, Johannes Valentinus Andreae ranks 7. Before him are Axel Oxenstierna, Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans, Carel Fabritius, Emperor Go-Kōmyō, Alessandro Algardi, and Paulus Potter. After him are Peter Claver, Samuel Scheidt, İslâm III Giray, Jacques Lemercier, Christian I, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler, and Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johannes Valentinus Andreae ranks 1,009 out of 6,142. Before him are Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp (1759), Wolfgang Overath (1943), Eugen Dühring (1833), Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden (1826), Klaus Nomi (1944), and Bernhard Schlink (1944). After him are Sophia of Prussia (1870), August Neidhardt von Gneisenau (1760), Natalia Alexeievna (1755), Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1697), Waldemar Hoven (1903), and Barbara Blomberg (1527).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Johannes Valentinus Andreae ranks 64. Before him are Thietmar of Merseburg (975), Tannhäuser (1205), Emanuel Schikaneder (1751), Ernst Hanfstaengl (1887), Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1622), and Bernhard Schlink (1944). After him are Ernst Barlach (1870), Alfred Brehm (1829), Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929), Joost van den Vondel (1587), Radegund (518), and Rudolf von Sebottendorf (1875).

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