page_title: List of occultists
section_title: 16th-century
hierarchical_section_title: List of occultists / 16th-century
caption_attribution_description: Henricus Cornelius Agrippa Med. &amp; Ic. Equ Deutsch: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535/1538)
context_page_description: This list comprises and encompasses people, both contemporary and historical, who are or were professionally or otherwise notably involved in occult practices. People who were or are merely believers of occult practices should not be included unless they played a leading or otherwise significant part in the practice of occultism.
context_section_description: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, occult philosopher, astrologer
  Giordano Bruno, occult philosopher
  Benevenuto Cellini, sculptor whose diary relates experience summoning spirits
  Cosimo Ruggeri, Italian astrologer and occultist
  John Dee, occult philosopher, mathematician, alchemist, Queen Elizabeth's advisor
  Gerhard Dorn, Belgian follower of Paracelsus
  Faust, made a pact with the Devil, also see Doctor Faustus
  Marsilio Ficino, astrologer and translator of the "Corpus Hermeticum"
  Edward Kelley, spirit medium and alchemist who worked with John Dee, founder of Enochian magic
  John Lambe, astrologer to George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
  Nostradamus, one of the world's most famous prophets
  Paracelsus, medical pioneer and occult philosopher
  Henry Percy, "Wizard Earl"
  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, humanist and neoplatonist
  Sir Walter Raleigh, practiced alchemy
  Johannes Reuchlin, German cabalist magician, summoned angels
  Rudolph II, Holy Roman Emperor, patron of alchemists
  Ursula Southeil, English soothsayer and prophet
  Johannes Trithemius, cryptographer and magical writer
  Johann Weyer (aka Johannes Wierus), German physician, occultist and demonologist.
caption: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa00
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