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Christian Knorr von Rosenroth (July 15/16, 1636 – May 4, 1689) was a German Christian Hebraist and Christian Cabalist born at Alt-Raudten, today Stara Rudna in Silesia. After having completed his studies in the universities of Wittenberg and Leipzig, he traveled through the Netherlands, France, and England. At Amsterdam he became acquainted with an Armenian prince, with the chief Rabbi, Meier Stern, Dr. John Lightfoot and Henry More. Influenced by them, and others, he studied Oriental languages, chemistry, and the cabalistic sciences. On his return he settled at Sulzbach where he became privy counsellor of Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach. He devoted himself to the study of Hebrew. Later he became a student of the Kabbalah, in which he believed to find proofs of the doctrines of Christianity. He also dedicated time to translate Thomas Browne's vast-ranging work of scientific journalism, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, totalling over 200,000 words into German, completing this task in 1680 for publication in Frankfurt and Leipzig. 〔 Alchemy of the Word: Cabala of the Renaissance Philip Beitchman pub. State University of New York Press, Albany 1989 〕 He also composed a number of hymns, including ''Jesus, Sun of Righteousness'' and ''Dayspring of Eternity''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.hymnary.org/person/Rosenroth_CKv )〕 A longer biography is available in Scholem (1974). ==Kabbalah== In Knorr Rosenroth's view the ''Adam Kadmon'' of the cabalists is Jesus, and the three highest ''sefirot'' represent the Trinity. He intended to make a Latin translation of the ''Zohar'' and the ''Tiḳḳunim,'' and he published as preliminary studies the first two volumes of his ''Kabbala Denudata, sive Doctrina Hebræorum Transcendentalis et Metaphysica Atque Theologia'' (Sulzbach, 1677–78). They contain a cabalistic nomenclature, the ''Idra Rabbah'' and ''Idra Zuṭa'' and the ''Sifra di-Ẓeni'uta,'' cabalistic essays of Naphtali Herz ben Jacob Elhanan,〔 ''History of Messianic Speculation in Israel'' Abba Hillel Silver 2003 "Naphtali Herz ben Jacob Elhanan (end of 16 a), German Kabbalist and disciple of Luria, author of 'Emek ha-Melek, a treatise on the elements of Kabbala" 〕 etc. Rosenroth published two other volumes under the title ''Kabbala Denudata'' (Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1684), containing the ''Sha'ar ha-Shamayim'' of Abraham Cohen de Herrera and several of the writings of Isaac Luria. He was created Baron von Rosenroth by the Emperor Leopold I.〔 A partial English translation of the ''Kabbala Denudata'' was made by S. L. MacGregor Mathers in 1887 which is still in print by several publishers under the title ''The Kabbalah Unveiled.'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christian Knorr von Rosenroth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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