Reitzenstein, Richard

Reitzenstein, Richard. Poimandres ein paganisiertes Evangelium Studien zurgrie-chisch-dgyptischen andfiiihchristUchen Literatur. Leipzig Teubner, 1904. 

Real academic study of the Corpus Hermeticum begins with Richard Reitzenstein, the first to undertake the study of these texts with full scientific rigor [Poimandres, Leipzig, 1904). But naturally one should not underestimate some of his predecessors, such as Casaubon, Tiedemann, Menard, Pietschmann, nor even Mead (see above for all of these). Esotericism at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century helped to stimulate erudite research into Hermetism. After Reizenstein, text-criticism and erudition are represented above all by Walter Scott and A. J. Festugiere ... 

Richard Reitzenstein, Poimandres Studien zur griechisch-dgyptische undfrOhchristli-chen Literatur (Leipzig Teubner, 1904). Reitzenstein makes no generalizations on the nature of fate and the need to transcend it. Compare Bousset, Hauptprobleme, 238, on heimarmene. 

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