Cis van Heertum
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From Poimandres to Jacob Bohme: Hermetism, Gnosis and the Christian Tradition (2000) — Directeur de publication — 14 exemplaires
Magic, alchemy and science 15th-18th centuries. The influence of Hermes Trismegistus. Vol. 2 — Directeur de publication — 2 exemplaires
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- Nom canonique
- Heertum, Cis van
- Nom légal
- Heertum, Francisca Wilhelmina van
- Date de naissance
- 1958
- Nationalité
- Nederland
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INTRODUCTION
Reuchlin! Wer will sich ihm vergleichen
Zu seiner Zeit ein Wunderzeichen!
Die heiligen Bücher schloss er auf
Doch Pfaffen wussten sich zu rühren,
Die alles breit ins Schlechte führen
Sie finden alles da und hie
So dumm und so absurd wie sie.
When Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote these lines in Zahme Xenien, published
in 1827, Reuchlin's reputation as one of Germany's most eminent scholars, as
a pioneering Christian Hebraist and Kabbalist, and as the object of Dominicarn
persecution was already well established. In the early 18th century the Christian
Hebraist and Kabbalist Hermann von der Hardt had set his predecessor a number
of literary monuments (see V); in 1955, on the occasion of the 500th anniversary
of Reuchlin's birth in Pforzheim, the proud city decided to institute a Reuchlin
prize in honour of the great humanist. One of the recipients was the outstanding
scholar of Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982), who
when he was awarded the distinction in 1969 said that were he to believe in the
transmigration of souls, he might perhaps imagine himself to be something of
a reincarnation of Johann Reuchlin, the founder of Hebrew studies in Germany
(Scholem owned Pistorius' kabbalistic compilation of 1587 which contained De
verbo mirifico and De arte cabalistica). Reuchlin also occupies a special place in the
Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica. Two of his major works, De verbo mirifico
(first edition: 1494) and De arte cabalistica (first edition: 1517) are in the library
in first and in later editions, while his affinity with the neoplatonic tradition of
the Florentine Academy as exemplified by Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico della
ndola is another reason to devote an exhibition to this great humanist, 550
years after his birth.… (plus d'informations)