Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)

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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.

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