Johann Valentin Andreae und die Rosenkreuzer

This volume brings together studies on Johann Valentin Andreae (1586–1654), the Rosicrucian writings and their historical environment. This includes the historical context of piety (Lutheranism, spiritualism), the historical context of alchemy, the historical context of literature, but also the biographical and contemporary historical background. The focus is not only on Andreae himself, but also on Daniel Mögling (1546–1603) and the anonymous »Abortus chymicus«. The topics covered include – among others – the ›Chymische Hochzeit‹, the traces of the Thirty Years’ War in Andreae’s work and the presence of late medieval mysticism around 1620. What distinguishes all the studies in the volume is the attempt to take a fresh look at texts and authors who were in one way or another connected with the Rosicrucian writings.

Contents:

• Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann / Volkhard Wels: Einleitung

• Frank Böhling: Vor der Bekehrung. Zu Johann Valentin Andreaes ›Irrwegen eines Fremden in der Heimat‹

• Uwe Maximilian Korn: Johann Valentin Andreaes theologisch-politische Schriften im Dreißigjährigen Krieg. Die ›Threni Calvenses‹ und die Sammlung ›Opuscula aliquot De Restitutione Reipublica Christianae in Germania‹

• Herbert Jaumann: Ist Frömmigkeit konstitutiv für die Rosenkreuzer-Manifeste? Einige Thesen über den rationalen Kern einer aufgezwungenen Debatte

• Uwe Maximilian Korn / Dirk Werle: Zur narrativen Faktur und fiktionshistorischen Situierung von Johann Valentin Andreaes ›Chymischer Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz‹ (1616)

• Volkhard Wels: Rätsel und Verrätselungen in der ›Chymischen Hochzeit‹

• Simon Brandl: »Alchemia rhodo-staurotica«? Paracelsistische Theoalchemie in Daniel Möglings ›Speculum sophicum rhodo-stauroticum‹

• Didier Kahn: The Alchemical Miscarriage, or the Vales of Secrets of the Divine Wisdom