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See also:OETINGER, See also:FRIEDRICH CHRISTOPH (1702-1782) , See also:German divine and theosophist, was See also:horn at See also:Goppingen on the 6th of May 1702. He studied See also:theology at See also:Tubingen (1722-1728), and was much impressed by the See also:works of See also:Jakob Bohme. On the completion of his university course, Oetinger spent some years in travel. In 1730 he visited See also:Count See also:Zinzendorf at See also:Herrnhut, remaining there some months as teacher of See also:Hebrew and See also:Greek. During his travels, in his eager See also:search for knowledge, he made the acquaintance of mystics and separatists, Christians and learned See also:Jews, theologians and physicians alike. At See also:Halle he studied See also:medicine. After some delay he was ordained to the See also:ministry, and held several pastorates. While pastor (from 1746) at Waldorf near See also:Berlin, he studied See also:alchemy and made many experiments, his See also:idea being to use his knowledge for symbolic purposes. These practices exposed him to the attacks of persons who misunderstood him. " My See also:religion," he once said, " is the See also:parallelism of Nature and See also:Grace." Oetinger translated See also:Swedenborg's See also:philosophy of See also:heaven and See also:earth, and added notes of his own. Eventually (1766) he became See also:prelate at Murrhardt, where he died on the loth of See also:February 1782. Oetinger's autobiography was published by J. Hamberger in 1845. He published about seventy works, in which he expounded his theosophic views. A collected edition, Samtliche Schriften (1st See also:section, Homiletische Schriften, 5 vols., 1858—1866; and section, Theosophische Werke, 6 vols., 1858—1863), was prepared by K. F. C. Ehmann, who also wrote Oetinger's Leben and Briefe (1859). See also C. A. Auberlen, See also:Die Theosophie Friedr. Chr, Oetinger's (1847; and ed., 1859), and See also:Herzog, Friedrich Christoph Olinger (1902). Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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