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International Society for the Academic Study of Esotericism

 

 

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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).

10th Century B.C.E. Solomon (Hebrew; son and successor of David; traditionally regarded as the greatest king of Israel).

628 – 551 B.C.E. Zarathushtra (Zoroaster).

580 - 497 B.C.E. Pythagoras.

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 Conway

1636 – 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 Sibley

1753 – 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 Hockley

1810 – 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 Wachtmeister

1838 – 1912 Franz Hartmann

1838 – 1921 Francois-Charles Barlet

1840 1921 Alfred Percy Sinnett

1841 – 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 Kingsland

1857 – 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 Purucker

1874 – 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 Barborka

1898 – 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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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