Author · Germany
Angelus Silesius
Died in 1677
Johann Scheffler was born in Breslau in 1624, the son of a Lutheran Polish nobleman settled in Silesia. He studied medicine in Strasbourg, Leiden and Padua, where he received a doctorate in philosophy and medicine in 1648, then became physician to the Duke of Württemberg-Oels. Reading the medieval mystics, then Jacob Böhme, whom Abraham von Franckenberg introduced him to, drew him away from Lutheranism: he converted publicly to Catholicism in 1653 and took the name Angelus Silesius. Ordained a priest in 1661, he wrote more than fifty pamphlets against the Protestants. He died in Breslau in 1677.
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