Article ID: CBB001320977

Michael Maier---Nine Newly Discovered Letters (2014)

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The authors provide a transcription, translation, and evaluation of nine newly discovered letters from the alchemist Michael Maier (1568--1622) to Gebhardt Johann von Alvensleben (1576--1631), a noble landholder in the vicinity of Magdeburg. Stemming from the final year of his life, this correspondence casts new light on Maier's biography, detailing his efforts to secure patronage amid the financial crisis of the early Thirty Years' War. While his ill-fated quest to perfect potable gold continued to form the central focus of his patronage suits, Maier also offered his services in several arts that he had condemned in his printed works, namely astrology and supernatural magic. Remarks concerning his previously unknown acquaintance with Heinrich Khunrath call for a re-evaluation of Maier's negotiation of the discursive boundaries between Lutheran orthodoxy and Paracelsianism. The letters also reveal Maier's substantial contribution to a work previously ascribed solely to the English alchemist Francis Anthony.

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Authors & Contributors
Qizhi, Yanan
Andreas Lerch
Waddell, Mark A.
Sparling, Andrew
Purš, Ivo
Pavlovic, Milica
Concepts
Science and religion
Magic
Astrology
Alchemy
Lutherans and Lutheranism
Occult sciences
Time Periods
16th century
17th century
Renaissance
18th century
Early modern
15th century
Places
Europe
Germany
Basel (Switzerland)
Prague (Czechia)
Florence (Italy)
United States
Institutions
Habsburg, House of
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