
Dickson, Texas A&M University.Īnother new volume has now been added to the projected nineteen-volume edition of the collected works of Johann Valentin Andreae (1586-1654), under the general editorship of Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann of the Free University of Berlin. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: frommann-holzboog, 2018. Edited and translated by Frank Bohling and Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann. Christenburg: Das ist: ein schon geistlich Gedicht (1616). Reipublicae Christianopolitanae descriptio (1619). In his later works, alchemy is the object of ridicule and is placed with music, art, theatre and astrology in the category of less serious sciences.Johann Valentin Andreae. In his autobiography he indicated the Chymische Hochzeit as one of his works-as a "ludibrium", possibly meaning "lampoon".

His role in the origin of the Rosicrucian legend is controversial. In 1650, he assumed direction of the monasterial school Bebenhausen in 1654, he became abbot of the evangelical monasterial school of Adelberg. He became also a spiritual adviser to a royal princess of Württemberg. In 1639, he became preacher at the court and councillor of the consistory (Konsistorialrat) in Stuttgart, where he advocated a fundamental church reform. To this end, he initiated the Christliche Gottliebende Gesellschaft ("Christian God-loving Society"). Here he reformed the school and social institutions, and established institutions for charity and other aids. He studied theology and natural sciences in Tübingen,obtaining a degree in 1614. Johannes Valentinus Andreä or Johann Valentin Andreae, was a German theologian, who claimed to be the author of the Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz anno 1459 (1616, Strasbourg, the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz), one of the three founding works of Rosicrucianism.

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