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Daniel Mögling (1596–1635)

Daniel Mögling (1596–1635)

German alchemist (1596–1635)

Daniel Mögling (1596 in Böblingen – 1635 in Butzbach) was a German alchemist and a Rosicrucian.

Drawings by Daniel Mögling and Guidobaldo DelMonte

Work

Mögling is thought to have written Speculum Sophicum Rhodostauroticum (Mirror of the Wisdom of the Rosy Cross, 1618) under the pseudonym Teophilus Schweighardt Constantiens, and Jhesus Nobis Omnia – Rosa Florescens (1617) under the pseudonym Florentinus de Valentia. He was personal physician and court astronomer to Philip III, Landgrave of Hesse-Butzbach from 1621 to 1635. He translated Philip Sidney's novel Arcadia into German.[1][2][3][4]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Friedrich Seck. "Wer hat Sidneys ›Arcadia‹ ins Deutsche übersetzt?" (PDF) (in German). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 March 2016.
  2. [2]
    • Susanna Åkerman, "Rose cross over the Baltic: the spread of rosicrucianism in Northern Europe", Brill's studies in intellectual history 87, Brill, 1998, ISBN 90-04-11030-5, p. 216.
  3. [3]
    • Johannes Kepler (translated and edited by Edward Rosen), "Kepler's somnium: the dream, or posthumous work on lunar astronomy", Courier Dover Publications, 2003, ISBN 0-486-43282-3, p. 184.
  4. [4]
    • William R. Newman, Anthony Grafton, "Secrets of nature: astrology and alchemy in early modern Europe", Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology, MIT Press, 2001, ISBN 0-262-14075-6, p. 301.


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