Christian Rosenkreuz

Christian Rosenkreutz, even Christian Rosenkreutz or Christianus Rosencreutz or Christian Rose Cross, is a legendary figure of Christian mysticism, called on by the Rosicrucians.

Work

The name of Christian Rosenkreutz was the first time around 1614 in the anonymous work of the Education and General Reformation of gantzen wide world. Beneben the Fama Fraternitatis, concerning the praiseworthy Order of the Rose Creutzes, written to all scholars and heads Europae (Kassel 1614) mentioned. The Fama Fraternitatis first appeared in Wilhelm Wessel in Kassel in an anthology containing more tracts. This treatise is an excerpt from a work by the Italian satirist Traiano Boccalini (1556-1613), which originally appeared in 1612 in Venice. The Fama Fraternitatis beige added German translation contained therein is by Wilhelm Biden Bach. Research today place the conjecture suggests that this scripture and others ( for example Confessio Fraternitatis RC and Ad Eruditos Europae (Latin, German edition: Confession or Bekandnuß the Societet and brothers Creates RC to the scholars Europae ), both Kassel 1615), all from a Tübingen acquaintances come, in whose center is the theologian Johann Valentin Andreae Württemberg (* 1586, † 1654) was. Also in 1616, in the Alchemical Wedding of the same author, Rosenkreutz occupied a central position. According to this report, he learned tests, inaugurations, hazards and wonderful deliverances in allegorical seals. Already in the first writings (earlier versions of the Alchemical Wedding might have handwritten since 1604 spread found) undertook Andreae to personalize the esoteric community by the shape of the legendary Rosenkreutz, who has since occupied the esoteric. Soon after the publication of sensational books Andreae declared that he had invented the form. Rosenkreutz ' views are represented in a line of development of Neo-Platonism, the Kabbalah, alchemy, the Paracelsism and a renewing of the spirit of mysticism Protestant Christianity and have satirical and utopian features.