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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 132,421 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Johannes Valentinus Andreae is the 1,217th most popular writer (down from 1,022nd in 2019), the 1,219th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,009th in 2019) and the 80th 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 1,217 out of 7,302. Before him are Alexander Ostrovsky, Martha Gellhorn, Johann Peter Eckermann, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, and Albert Barillé. After him are Eiji Yoshikawa, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Jan Długosz, Raymond Radiguet, Wilhelm Weitling, and Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont.

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

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johannes Valentinus Andreae ranks 1,219 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen (1671), Clemens August Graf von Galen (1878), Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (1862), Johann Peter Eckermann (1792), Kurt Gerstein (1905), and Klaus Schulze (1947). After him are Conrad Schumann (1942), Günther Korten (1898), Wilhelm Weitling (1808), Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (1813), Maximilian Anton, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis (1831), and Erika Mann (1905).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Johannes Valentinus Andreae ranks 80. Before him are Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929), Gottfried Benn (1886), Rudolf von Sebottendorf (1875), Radegund (518), Theodor Storm (1817), and Johann Peter Eckermann (1792). After him are Wilhelm Weitling (1808), Siegfried Kracauer (1889), Jakob Wassermann (1873), Widukind of Corvey (925), Lina Heydrich (1911), and Kurt Tucholsky (1890).

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