What is Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa?
[[File:Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa00.jpg|thumb|right|Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa]] '''Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim''' (14 September 1486 – 18 February 1535) was a [[Germans|German]] [[occult]] [[writer]], [[astrology|astrologer]], and [[alchemy|alchemist]]. == His life == Agrippa was born in [[Cologne]] in 1486. In 1512, he taught at the [[University of Dole]] in [[France]]. In 1510, he studied briefly with [[Trithemius|Johannes Trithemius]]. During this part of his life in Germany, [[France]] and [[Italy]], he worked as a [[theology|theologian]], [[physician]], [[lawyer|legal expert]] and [[soldier]]. He was for some time in the service of [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor|Maximilian I]]. According to his student [[Johann Weyer]], in the [[book]] ''[[De praestigiis daemonum]]'', Agrippa died in [[Grenoble]], in 1535. == Partial works == * ''De occulta philosophia libri tres.'' Ed. Vittoria Perrone Compagni. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 1992: {{ISBN|90-04-09421-0}}. * ''Three Books Of Occult Philosophy.'' Trans. J. F. Edited by Donald Tyson. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 1993: {{ISBN|0-87542-832-0}}. * ''Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex.'' Trans. Albert Rabil, Jr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996: {{ISBN|0-226-01059-7}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius}} [[Category:1486 births]] [[Category:1535 deaths]] [[Category:Astrologers]] [[Category:German esotericists]] [[Category:Occultists]] [[Category:Writers from Cologne]]