Jakob Böhme, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jakob Böhme

German Christian mystic and theologian

Date of Birth: 24-Apr-1575

Place of Birth: Stary Zawidów, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 17-Nov-1624

Profession: theologian, philosopher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Jakob Böhme (; German: ['bø?m?]; 24 April 1575 – 17 November 1624) was a German philosopher, Christian mystic, and Lutheran Protestant theologian.
He was considered an original thinker by many of his contemporaries within the Lutheran tradition, and his first book, commonly known as Aurora, caused a great scandal.
In contemporary English, his name may be spelled Jacob Boehme; in seventeenth-century England it was also spelled Behmen, approximating the contemporary English pronunciation of the German Böhme. Böhme had a profound influence on later philosophical movements such as German idealism and German Romanticism.
Hegel described Böhme as "the first German philosopher".