Biographies of alchemists and hermetic philosophers

These 72 biographies are a subset I have extracted from the Rice University Catalog of the Scientific Community in the 16th and 17th Centuries, a collection of 631 detailed biographies on members of the scientific community during the 16th and 17th centuries with vital facts about each individual and their contributions to science, compiled by the late Richard S. Westfall, Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University. While the scope of Dr. Westfall's research is immense, the information is concise and very well organized.
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Georgius Agricola

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

Johann Valentin Andreae

Johann Conrad Barchusen

Johann Joachim Becher

Adam of Bodenstein

Anselmus Boetius de Boodt

Olaus Borrichius

Tommaso Campanella

Gerolamo Cardano

Oswald Crollius

William Davison

Cornelius Drebbel

Joseph Duchesne

Etienne-Francois Geoffroy

Giambattista della Porta

Christopher Glaser

Johann Rudolph Glauber

Nicolas Guibert

Johannes Baptiste van Helmont

Conrad Khunrath

Heinrich Khunrath

Nicolaise LeFebvre

Andreas Libavius

Michael Neander

Andreas Osiander

Theophrastus Paracelsus

Bernardo Perez de Vargas

Giambattista della Porta

Guerner Rolfinck

Michael Sendivogius

Petrus Severinus

Georg Ernst Stahl

Alexander Suchten

Leonhard Thurneysser

Theodorus Turquet de Mayerne

Phillipp Ulstad

Georg Wolfgang Wedel

John Francis Vigani