The Görlitzer Jacob Böhme: visionary between mysticism and persecution!

The Görlitzer Jacob Böhme: visionary between mysticism and persecution!

In the night from November 16 to November 17, 1624, the controversial Görlitz shoemaker and mystic Jacob Böhme died. Known for his provocative writings about God and nature, Böhme sparked a storm of indignation with his first publication "Aurora or dawn in the emergence", which even led to his arrest. Upper pastor Gregor Richter gave him a ban on writing and warned of "false prophets" while an angry mob was shaving his grave. Despite these resistances, Böhme is now considered one of the most important German thinkers and is called the first "German philosopher" by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

On the occasion of its 400th anniversary of death, the Böhme Society in the Cultural History Museum Görlitz will be a series of lectures entitled "Böhme for everyone-what can the Görlitz philosopher still tell us today?" organize. A bronze statue and a boulder at the Nikolaifriedhof are reminiscent of his legacy, while for many his ideas remain fascinating for many even 400 years after his death. www.meine-kirchenzeitung.de today.