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His students included Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa and Paracelsus.
His students included Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa and Paracelsus.
== In the News ==
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== Fiction cross-reference ==
== Fiction cross-reference ==

Revision as of 12:22, 30 December 2016

Detail of tomb relief of Johannes Trithemius. Originally in the Schottenkirche St. Jakob, it was moved to the Neumünster.

Johannes Trithemius (1 February 1462 – 13 December 1516), born Johann Heidenberg, was a German Benedictine abbot and a polymath active in the German Renaissance as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer and occultist.

He had considerable influence on the development of early modern and modern occultism.

His students included Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa and Paracelsus.

In the News

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