Johann Reuchlin
1455 – 1522 German humanist, Hebraist, jurist
German humanist who brought Christian Kabbalah into print and scholarship.
- Religion
- Christian Kabbalah, using Hebrew letter mysticism and the divine names to support Christian doctrine.
- Affiliations
- No occult society. A scholar who made Kabbalah accessible to Christian readers.
Johann Reuchlin was the leading Christian Hebraist of his age and wrote De Verbo Mirifico and De Arte Cabalistica, the first systematic Christian studies of Kabbalah. Following Pico, he treated Hebrew letter mysticism and the divine names as keys to hidden truth. He also fought a famous public battle to defend Jewish books from being burned.
Connections
- influenced Giovanni Pico della Mirandola — Extended Pico's Christian Kabbalah.
- influenced Giovanni Pico della Mirandola — Reuchlin took up Pico's Christian Kabbalah in Germany.
- influenced Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa — Agrippa drew on Reuchlin's Kabbalistic scholarship.
In the timeline
- 1494 Reuchlin publishes De Verbo Mirifico mentioned