Difference between revisions of "Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa"

Agrippa was born in Nettesheim, near Cologne on 14 September 1486 to a family of middle nobility. Many members of his family had been in the service of the House of Habsburg. Agrippa studied at the University of Cologne from 1499 to 1502, (age 13–16) when he received the degree of ''magister artium''. The University of Cologne was one of the centers of Thomism, and the faculty of arts was split between the dominant Thomists and the Albertists. It is likely that Agrippa's interest in the [[occult]] came from this Albertist influence. Agrippa himself named Albert’s ''[[Speculum]]'' as one of his first occult study texts. He later studied in Paris, where he apparently took part in a secret society involved in the occult.