Valentin, Andreae

Dickson, Donald R. Johann Valentin Andreae s utopian brotherhoods. 

Thompson, Edward H. Portraits of Johann Valentin Andreae. rhttp //homepages.tesco.net/ -eandcthomp/andportraits.htm]. 

Thompson, Edward H. "The Reipublicae Christianopolitanae descriptio (1619) of Johann Valentin Andreae, and its socio-economic relationships." PhD thesis, Dundee University, 1997. 

Dickson, Donald R. Johannes Saubert, Johann Valentin Andreae and the Unio Christians. German Life Letters 49 (1996) 18-31. 

This page tries to go behind some of the myths about Johann Valentin Andreae. 

Chapter V Some alchemical masters VI Paracelsus and his teachings IX Johann Valentin Andrea... 

Dickson, Donald. Johann Valentin Andreae s Utopian Brotherhoods. Renaissance Quarterly 49, no. 4 (Winter 1996) 760-802. 

Many years later a well-known German theologian, Johann Valentin Andreae of Wiirtemberg, confessed that he had written The Chemical Wedding as a schoolboy joke. Whether he was also the author of the other two pamphlets, and whether they were also intended as jokes, was unclear. However, even after this confession, many continued to take all the pamphlets seriously. At one level they were interpreted by occultists as describing various alchemical and hermetic secrets. Others read into them a deeper social purpose in which a reformation in science, similar to the Lutheran reformation in religion, was... 

Germany Johann Valentin Andrea Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosencreutz... 

Edighoffer, Roland. Rose-croix et societe ideale selon Johann Valentin Andreae (Neuilly sur Seine Arma Artis, 1987). 

Montgomery, John Warwick. Cross and Crucible Johann Valentin Andreae (1586-1654), Phoenix of the Theologians, 2 vols. (The Hague Martinus Nijhoff, 1973). 

Johann Valentin Andrea, who organized the Christian Unions, is also considered the most likely author of the Rosiemeian manifesto Christian Rosencranz. He adopted armorial bearings of a St. Andrew s cross with four roses. 

The Christian Unions of Johann Valentin Andrea, who organized the mass Rosicrucian evacuation from Germany, urgently needed stability in Britain. There were a number of ready havens for them. These included nobles who had been forming circles for the practice of the Mysteries. Dr John Dee had refreshed this knowledge from the Architects in Italy and Navigators in Holland. 

In a similar way, what little evidence there is, concerning for example the publication of Fludd s History, does not seem to tally with the above interpretation. For instance, according to Fludd s own testimony, the man who kept him informed about the printing of his volumes appears to have been a certain Justus Helt and not, as one might expect, Maier. Unfortunately, up to now nothing is known about this Kelt (or Held), except for the fact that in the very same years he was in personal contact with Johann Valentin Andreae (1586-1654), the alleged author of the Rosicrucian manifestos. ... 

J.W. Montgomery Cross and Crucible. Johann Valentin Andreae (1586—1654), Phoenix of the Theologians. Volume I Andreae s Life, World-View, and Relations with Rosicrucianism and Alchemy Volume II The Chymische Hochzeit with Notes and Commentary. 1973 Set ISBN 90-247-5054-7... 

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