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Timeline of Esotericists and related matters
[This is a work in progress]
14th – 13th Century B.C.E. Moses (Hebrew; Prophet and leader).
628 – 551 B.C.E. Zarathushtra (Zoroaster).
525 B.C.E. Persian conquest of Egypt bringing Persian mystical beliefs into Egypt.
490-430 Empedocles
428/27-348-47 B.C.E. Plato
333 - 331 B.C.E. Greek occupation of Egypt by Alexander the Great.
4? B.C.E. – 33 C.E. Jesus
50 Simon Magus
80 Menander
85 – 160 Marcion
1st. Century C.E. Apollonius of Tyana.
100 Cerinthus
100 Elchasai/Elxai
100 – 300 C.E. The presumed composition of the Corpus Hermeticum.
120 Satornilus
150 (before) Credo
175 - 242 C.E. Amonious Saccas, the rather unknown founder of Neo-Platonism.
2nd century Justin (the Gnostic)
2nd century Basilides
2nd century Marcus (the Magician)
2nd century Monoimus
2nd century Prodicus
205 - 270 C.E. Plotinus.
216 – 277 Mani
234 – 305 C.E. Porphyry.
250 (before) Clement of Alexandria (Titus Flavius Clemens)
250 – 330 C.E. Iamblichus.
354 – 430 Augustine
3rd/4th century Zosimus of Panopolis
500 C.E. Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.
Ca. 800 – 866 Al-Kindi, Abu Yusuf Ya´qub ibn Ishaq
810 – 877 Johannes Scottus Eriugena
980 – 1037 Avicenna (Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Abd Allah ibn Sina)
1018 - 1078 Michael Psellus (Psellos, the Younger)1098 – 1179 Hildegard of Bingen
Ca. 1135 - 1202 Joachim of Fiore (Joachim of Flora, Gioacchino da Fiore)1140 – 1150 Robert of Chester
1140 – 1210 Daniel of Morley
? – 1157 Bernard Silvester
1191 – 1249 William of Auvergne
1198 - 1236 Michael Scot
1190(s). Wolfram von Eschenbach's great Arthurian poem Parzival.
Ca. 1200 – 1280 Albertus Magnus
1215 – 1292 Roger Bacon
1215 – 1315 Peter of Abano (Pietro de Sclavione)
1232 – 1316 Ramon Llull (Raymundus Lullus)
1240 – 1311 Arnau de Vilanova
1260 - 1327 C.E. Meister (Johannes) Eckhart, (of the Dominican order)
1265 – 1321 Dante Alighieri
1293 – 1381 C.E. Johannes Ruysbroek (follower of Eckhart).
1300 – 1360 C.E. Johannes Tauler (follower of Eckhart)
1310 – 1365 Jean de Roquetaillade
1330 – 1418 Nicolas Flamel
1350 – 1420 Pierre d’Ailly 8Petrus de Alliaco)
1355 – 1452 Georgios Gemistos Plethon
? – 1382 Guillaume Sedacer
1401 – 1464 C.E. Nicholas of Cusa (Niklaus Krebs)
1433 – 1499 C.E. Marsilio Ficino.
1439 C.E. Lectures held in Florence by Georgios Gemistos (Pletho) (neoplatonic); this inspired Cosimo de Medici to found his Platonic Academy.
1447 – 1500 Lodovico Lazzarelli
1451 – 1503 Giovanni da Correggio
1455-1522 C.E. Johannes Reuchlin.
1455 – 1536 Jacques Lefevre d’Etaples
1460 – 1540 Pietro Galatino
1462 – 1516 Johannes Trithemius
1463-1494 C.E. Pico della Mirandola.
1466 – 1540 Francesco Giorgio
1469 – 1532 Egidio Viterbo (Egidio Antonini)
1470 – 1539/40 Symphorien Champier
1480 – 1543 Giulio Camillo
1486 C.E. Nine hundred conclusions on the Kabbalah published (Pico).
1486 – 1535/1536 Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
1493 – 1541 Paracelsus (Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim)
1510 – 1581 Guillaume Postel
1512 – 1594 Francois Foix de Candale
1517 C.E. Luther's 95 thesis put on the door.
1520 – 1576 Jacques Gohory (Leo Suavius)
1527 – 1609 John Dee
1529 – 1597 Francesco Patrizi
1530 – 1584 Gerard Dorn
1531 C.E. Agrippa's Three Books on Occult Philosophy Published - org finished in 1509.
1533 – 1588 Valentin Weigel
1534-1572 C.E. Isaac Luria of Safed in Galilee.
1535 C.E. Dialoghi d' Amore by Judah Arbanel (Leone Ebereo) (Kabbalah revival)
1541 – 1598 Guy Le Fevre de La Boderie
1548 – 1600 Giordano (Filippo) Bruno
1552 – 1612 Rudolf II of Habsburg
1555 – 1624 Clovis Hesteau de Nuysement
1560 – 1605 Heinrich Khunrath
1560 – 1630 Adam Haslmayr
1561 – 1626 Francis Bacon
1568 – 1639 Tommaso Campanella
1569 – 1622 Count Michael Maier
1574 – 1637 Robert Fludd
1575 – 1624 Jacob Boehme
1579 – 1644 Joan Baptista van Helmont
1586 – 1654 Johann Valentin Andreae
1587 C.E. Artis Cabalisticae by Johann Pistorius published (Kabbalah revival).
1592 – 1670 Jan Amos Comenius (Komenski)
1602 – 1680 Athanasius Kircher
1607 – 1681 John Pordage
1614 – 1687 Henry More
1614 – 1698 Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont
1617 – 1688 Ralph Cudworth
1617 – 1692 Elias Ashmole
1621 – 1666 Thomas Vaughan (Eugenius Philalethes)
1623 – 1704 Jane Lead(e)
1626 – 1665 John Heydon (Eugenius Theodidactus)
1627 – 1691 Robert Boyle
1628 – 1665 George Starkey (Eirenaeus Philalethes)
1631 - 1679 Anne Conway1636 – 1689 Christian Knorr von Rosenroth
1638 – 1710 Johann Georg Gichtel
1642 – 1727 Isaac Newton
1646 - 1716 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
1646 – 1719 Pierre Poiret
1655 – 1727 Georg von Welling
1666 – 1714 Gottfried Arnold
1668 – 1738 Melchior Douzetemps
1686 – 1761 William Law
1688 – 1772 Emanuel Swedenborg
17th century Sincerus Renatus (Samuel Richter)
1700 – 1777 Hermann Fictuld
1702 – 1782 Friedrich Christoph Oetinger
1709 – 1727 Martines de Pasqually
1710 – 1771 Raimondo di Sangro di San Severo
1710 – 1782 Samuel Jacob Falk
1716 – 1796 Dom Antoine-Joseph Pernety
1719 – 1792 Jacques Cazotte
1721 – 1793 Jean-Philippe Dutoit-Membrini
1725 – 1784 Antoine Court de Geblin
1730 – 1824 Jean-Baptiste Willermoz
1734 – 1806 Retif de la Bretonne
1738 – 1791 Etteilla (Jean-Baptiste Alliette)
1739 – 1799 Niklaus Anton Kirchberger (Baron von Liebisdorf)
1740 – 1817 Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling
1741 – 1801 Johann Caspar Lavater
1743 – 1795 Alessandro di Caglistro
1743 – 1803 Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin
1744 – 1818 Nikolay Ivanovich Novikov
1749 – 1832 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1750 – 1822 Louise Marie Therese Bathilde d’Orleans (Duchess of bourbon-Conde)
1752 – 1803 Karl von Eckartshausen
1752 – 1832 Christian Haugwitz
1752 – 1799 Ebenezer Sibley1753 – 1821 Joseph de Maistre
1756 – 1816 Ivan Vladimirovich Lopukhin
1757 – 1827 William Blake
1758 – 1819 Michael Hahn
1765 – 1841 Benedict Franz Xaver von Baader
1767 – 1825 Antoine Fabre d’Olivet
1772 – 1801 Novalis (Georg Philipp Fredrich von Hardenberg)
1772 – 1849 Johann Fredrich von Meyer
1773 – 1838 Bernard-Raymond Fabré-Palaprat
1774 – 1830 Francis Barrett
1775 – 1854 Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
1776 – 1810 Johann Wilhelm Ritter
1776 – 1847 Pierre Simon Ballanche
1776 – 1853 Jozef Maria Hoeme-Wronski
1780 – 1860 Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert
1781 – 1866 Jean-Marie Ragon de Bettignies
? – 1784 Le Comte de Saint-Germain
1786 – 1862 Justinus Andreas Christian Kerner
1794 – 1864 Boys des Guays
1795 – 1868 Jecques-Etienne Marconis de Negre
1800 – 1864 Jacob Lorber
1803 – 1873 Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
1806 – 1890 Abbe Paul-Francois-Gaspard Lacuria
1808 – 1855 Gerard de Nerval
1808 – 1885 Frederick Hockley1810 – 1875 Eliphas Levi (Alphonse Louis Constant)
1817 – 1890 Hargrave Jennings
? – 1821 Frederic-Rodolphe Saltzmann
1821 – 1890 Sir Richard Francis Burton
1823 – 1899 Emma (Floyd) Hardinge Britten
1825 – 1875 Paschal Beverly Randolph
1826 – 1910 Andrew Jackson Davis
1831 – 1891 Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
1832 – 1907 Henry Steel Olcott
1838 – 1910 Countess Constance Wachtmeister1838 – 1912 Franz Hartmann
1838 – 1921 Francois-Charles Barlet
1840 – 1921 Alfred Percy Sinnett1841 – 1928 Edouard Schure
1842 – 1909 Joseph Alexandre Saint-Yves d’Alveydre
1846 – 1888 Anna bonus Kingsford
1847 – 1933 Annie Besant
1847 – 1948 Art(h)ur Dinter
1848 – 1904 Joris-Karl Huysmans
1848 – 1919 Guido Karl Anton (von) List
1848 – 1925 William Wynn Westcott
1848 – 1927 Max Theon (Louis Maximilian Bimstein)
1849 – 1905 Anthelme-Nizier Philippe
1854 – 1918 C.E. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
1854 – 1934 Charles Webster Leadbeater
1855 – 1936 William Kingsland1857 – 1942 Arthur Edward Waite
1858 – 1918 Joseph-Aime Peladan
1861 – 1897 Marquis de Stanislas Guaita
1861 – 1925 Rudolf Steiner
1861 – 1930 Giuliano Kremmerz
1863 – 1933 George Robert Stowe Mead
1864 – 1944 Peter Konstantinov Deunov
1865 – 1916 Papus (Gerard-Anaclet-Vincent Encausse)
1865 – 1919 Max Heindel (Carl Louis Fredrik Grasshof)
1865 – 1939 William Butler Yeats
1866 – 1949 George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff
1867 – 1935 George William Russell
1868 – 1932 Gustav Meyrink (Gustav Meyer)
1871 – 1926 Paul Sedir (Yvon Le Loup)
1871 – 1946 Louis Charbonneau-Lassay
1874 – 1942 Gottfried de Purucker1874 – 1954 Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels (Adolf Josef Lanz)
1875 – 1947 Aleister Crowley
1875 – 1961 Carl Gustav Jung
1876 – 1943 Bo Yin Ra (Joseph Anton Schneider(-Franken)
1877 – 1939 Oscar Vladislas Milosz
1877 – 1945 Edgar Cayce
1878 – 1946 Arturo Reghini
1878 – 1947 Piotr Ouspenskey
1880 – 1949 Alice Ann Bailey
1881 – 1958 Leopold Ziegler
1883 – 1939 Harvey Spencer Lewis
1886 – 1951 Rene Jean Marie Joseph Guenon
1887 – 1961 Rene Adolphe Schwaller
1888 – 1935 Fernando Pessoa
1890 – 1946 Dion Fortune (Violet Mary Firth)
1890 – 1969 Boris Mouravieff
1896 – 1968 Jan van Rijckenborgh (Jan Leene)
1896 – 1988 Graf von Karlfried Durckheim
1897 – 1968 Bela Hamvas
1897 – 1982 Geoffrey Avery Barborka1898 – 1974 Giulio Cesare Evola
1899 – 1982 Eugéne Léon Canseliet
1900 – 1973 Valentin - Tomberg
1901 – 1990 Manly Palmer Hall
1903 – 1978 Henry Corbin
1906 – 1980 Massimo Scaligero
1907 – 1986 Raymond Abellio
1907 – 1998 Frithjof Schuon