Christian Kabbalist

Christian Kabbalist also known as Johannes Valentinus Andreae born at Herrenberg in 17 August 1586. he was a theologian and writer.

## Christian Kabbalist

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## Physical description

### Gender

Male

Christian was son of Johannes Andreae and Maria Moser, he studied theology and natural sciences. He befriended Christoph Besold who encouraged his interest in esotericism.

In 1605 he wrote the first version of "The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosekreutz". He was refused the final examination and church service, for attaching a pasquill to the chancellor Enzlin's door, on the occasion of his marriage.

After that, he taught young nobles and hiked with his students through Switzerland, France, Austria and Italy. He visited Dillingen, a bastion of the Jesuits, whom he regarded as the Antichrist.

In 1608 he returned to Tübingen. He came to know Tobias Hess, a Paracelsian physician with an interest in apocalyptic prophecy.

In 1610 after years of search he became a alchemist and he began writing books and manifesto's against the Witch Hunt and God.

* Fama Fraternitatis published 1614
* Confessio Fraternitatis published 1615
* The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz published 1616

In 1612 he resumed his theological studies in Tübingen. After the final examination in 1614, he became deacon in Vaihingen an der Enz, and in 1620 priest in Calw.

In Calw he reformed the school and social institutions, and established institutions for charity and other aids. To this end, he initiated the Christliche Gottliebende Gesellschaft ("Christian God-loving Society").

In 1628 he planned a "Unio Christiana". He obtained funds and brought effective help for the reconstruction of Calw, which was destroyed in the Battle of Nördlingen (1634) by the imperial troops and visited by pestilence.

In 1639, he became preacher at the court and councillor of Konsistorialrat in Stuttgart, where he advocated a fundamental church reform. He became known as Christian Rosenkreuz and spiritual adviser to a royal princess of Württemberg.

He promoted the Tübinger Stift, a hall of residence and teaching which was a seminary owned and supported by the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg, in South West Germany. The Stift was founded as an Augustinian monastery in 1536, Duke Ulrich turned the Stift into a seminary which served to prepare Protestant pastors for Württemberg. A prominent student of the Stift during this period was Johannes Kepler.

In 1646, Andreae was made a member of the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft ("Fruitbearing Society"), where he got the company-nickname der Mürbe ("the soft"). In 1650, he assumed direction of the monasterial school Bebenhausen and closed the Christian God-loving Society. and in 1654, he became abbot of the evangelical monasterial school of Adelberg.

in may of 1654 he was visited by Richard who wanted to create the Second Church of the Rose and the Cross, however in 27 June Christian died in Stuttgart.

in 1661 Richard created the second Church of Rose and The Cross in France with Christian Kabbalist included as a member after his death after Richard's wish to honor him.