Abraham von Franckenberg
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Abraham von Franckenberg (24 June 1593 – 25 June 1652) was a
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Abraham von Franckenberg was born in 1593 into an old
He inherited the family estate in Ludwigsdorf in 1623, but passed it on to his brother Balthasar in exchange for the right to keep a few small rooms in the family home. He lived a very reclusive life and rarely ventured forth from this room – only in 1634 to attend to those suffering from plague, and in 1640 to challenge the rhetoric of Georg Seidel, a Lutheran preacher from Oels whom Franckenberg regarded as intolerant.
Tired of this and other confrontations, and mindful of the fact that events of the Thirty Years' War were moving in the direction of Silesia, Franckenberg moved to Danzig via Breslau in 1641, where he lodged until 1649 with the astronomer Johannes Hevelius, who introduced him to Copernican astronomy. He spent the winter of 1642-43 in Holland, where he had several works by Böhme published.
He returned home to Ludwigsdorf in 1649 and, the following year, met
Works
His works show ideas drawn from many sources: from the
Raphael
Perhaps Franckenberg's most famous work - and certainly his most unusual - is Raphael, Oder Arzt-Engel, first published posthumously in Amsterdam 1676.
The Hebrew name 'Raphael' means 'God has healed'. The archangel Raphael has traditionally been linked with healing and restoration, and it is clear that Franckenberg, in subtitling his manuscript Arzt-Engel ('doctor-angel', a play on Erzengel, 'archangel'), is aware of this fact and wishes to make it clear to his readers. The work, ostensibly a medical tract, draws on both Paracelsian alchemy and Böhmian mysticism. There is also evidence pointing to Franckenberg's interest in the Kabbalah and of links with Rosicrucianism and the ideas of Joachim of Fiore.
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See also
- Friedrich von Frankenberg (1889-1950)
Notes
- ^ geneagraphie.com. "Balthasar von Frankenberg und Ludwigsdorf – Pedigree Chart". Retrieved 29 November 2012. Balthasar is the brother of Abraham.
- ^ frankenbergprivat.de. "Abraham von Frankenberg". Retrieved 29 November 2012. This website, which is focused on the Frankenberg family history, says that Abraham's father was Dietrich von Frankenberg (1565–1622).
References
- Bruckner, J., Abraham von Franckenberg: A bibliographical catalogue with a shortlist of his library, Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz, 1988.
- Butzmann, H., Die Blanckenburger Handschriften (Kataloge der Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel), Frankfurt/Main: Klostermann, 1966.
- Peuckert, W.-E., Die Rosenkreuzer: Zur Geschichte einer Reformation, Jena: Diederichs, 1928.
- Reeves, M., Joachim of Fiore and the prophetic future, London: SPCK, 1976.
- Reeves, M. and B. Hirsch-Reich, The Figurae of Joachim of Fiore, Oxford: Clarendon, 1972.
- Stockum, T.C. von, Zwischen Jakob Böhme und Johannes Scheffler: Abraham von Franckenberg (1593-1652) und Daniel Czepko von Reigersfeld (1605-1660), Amsterdam: Mededelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie von Wetenschappen, 1967.
- Digital edition of "Raphael": https://web.archive.org/web/20110605025508/http://diglib.hab.de/wdb.php?dir=drucke%2Fxb-2820