Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
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"All that he said threw greatly into the shade Cornelius Agrippa, Albertus Magnus, and Paracelsus, the lords of my imagination; but by some fatality the overthrow of these men disinclined me to pursue my accustomed studies."--Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley "See the apology by Naudé, for great men accused of magic. The author there thinks himself obliged to prove that Homer, Virgil, Zoroaster, Orpheus, Democritus, Solomon, pope Sylvester, Empedocles, Apollonius, Agrippa, Albertus Magnus, Paracelsus, &c. never were sorcerers."--A Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties and His Education (1810) by Helvetius |
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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (14 September 1486 – 18 February 1535) was a German polymath, physician, legal scholar, soldier, theologian and an occult writer.
He is known for books such as Three Books of Occult Philosophy.
In Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, his writings, along with those of Albertus Magnus and Paracelsus, are listed as influences on a young Victor Frankenstein.
In Christopher Marlowe's play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, where Faustus decides to study necromancy and proclaims he will become "as cunning as Agrippa was" (Act 1, Scene 1, Line 119).
Appears as a character in Mary Shelley's 1833 short story The Mortal Immortal.
Appears in Søren Kierkegaard's 1845 book Stages on Life's Way.
Agrippa is a character in Valery Bryusov's 1908 novel The Fiery Angel and the opera by Sergei Prokofiev based on the novel.
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