Abraham von Franckenberg
Abraham Count of Franckenberg (* June 24, 1593 in Ludwig village in Oels (now Bystre, Circle Oleśnica ), † June 25, 1652 ) was a Silesian mystics.
Life
Franckenberg came from Silesian nobility, and received his education at the Gymnasium in Brieg. He matriculated in 1612 at the University of Leipzig, in 1613 went to the University of Wittenberg and was in the winter semester 1613/14 at the University of Jena. After the completion of his law studies, he returned in 1617 on the family estate Ludwisgdorf back. Since the school did not satisfy him Christianity, he worked alongside the management of his estate to the study of the writings of the mystics, especially Johann Tauler, Kaspar Schwenckfeld and Jacob Boehme.
Especially he was strongly influenced by Boehme's Aurora or Dawn, which appeared in 1612. Repeatedly asked by the Duke of oil which to enter his service, he leaned always on the grounds that he was afraid to engage in sin. Soon was formed under his leadership, a Friends of the mystic and the Rosicrucians, either with him in Ludwig village or at another patron of Jakob Böhme, Johann Sigismund of Schweinichen (1590-1664), Lord of the pig house castle, gathered.
Franckenberg belonged to the Silesian mystic circle, which also includes Angelus Silesius counts. What is on the grave stone Schweinichen, he has " abandoned all worldly society in Manlichen age and spent the greater part of his life for itself in one mimic observations of the mysteries of God and of nature," what can be said of all members of the Franckenberg circle. For this circuit the work of the manifestation of the Spirit did not end with the appearance before the apostles; they sought themselves closer to the mystery of God through visions.
In 1634 the plague broke out in Silesia; all had fled, only Franckenberg stayed with his patients, providing them with medicines and buried them when they died. Around 1640, he became the target of the Protestant publicists and theologians because it rejected the confession and the Lord's Supper in Schwenckfeld succession.
Between July 1642 and the autumn of 1649 he lived with interrupting stays in Elblag and Wisłoujście than Exulant in Gdansk in a job as a tutor in the Dutch merchant du Pre " prope Templum parochial auff the Schnüffelmarcka ". In Gdansk, he also met Johannes Hevelius, whose interest in astronomy he shared. After his return to Ludwisgdorf he died there unmarried in 1652. His library he bequeathed to his friend Schweinichen, who passed it later Angelus Silesius ( part stocks today Wroclaw University Library ). Franck Berg's grave stone in the church at Ludwig village is full of mysterious symbols, so far in vain await an interpretation.
Works
- Conclvsiones de Fundamento Sapientiae Theo Rico practicae. This is / finite decision by reason of the whiteness / worn together by a number of lovers of truth. Amsterdam:. Königstein, 1646 ( digitized and full text in German Text Archive )
Most of his writings, which he wrote under the pseudonym of Amadeus Friedleben, published after his death: Nosce te ipsum, Frankfurt 1675; the influence of Paracelsus Medicina Dei, Amsterdam in 1670. A. In 1676 published his most important work of Franckenberg Raphael or doctor angel to esoteric medicine and psychotherapy. The title refers to the traditionally responsible for healing Archangel Raphael. Franckenberg represents in a microcosm - macrocosm - teaching and the doctrine of signatures. Disease can thus be treated in three ways: by drugs ( = medicine ) through Spiritual Healing ( = clairvoyance ), as well as by magic.