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• ANGELUS

ANGELUS SILESIUS (1624-1677)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German religious poet, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in 1624 at See also:

• BRESLAU (Polish Wraclaw)

Breslau . His See also:

• FAMILY

family name was Johann Scheffler, but he is generally known by the See also:

• PSEUDONYM (Gr. >l ev&,vuµos, having a false name, ¢Evirls, false and ovoµa, name)

pseudonym See also:

• ANGELUS

Angelus Silesius, under which he published his poems and which marks the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country of his See also:

• BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

birth . Brought up a Lutheran, and at first physician to the See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke of See also:

• WURTTEMBERG

Wurttemberg-See also:

• OELS

Oels, he joined in 1652 the See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church, in 1661 took orders as a See also:

• PRIEST (Ger. Priester, Fr. pretre)

priest, and became coadjutor to the See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

prince See also:

• BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")
• BISHOP, ISABELLA (1832-1904)
• BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (1786-1855)

bishop of Breslau . He died at Breslau on the 9th of See also:

• JULY

July 1677 . In 1657 Silesius published under the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title Heilige Seelenlust, odes geistliche Hirtenlieder der in ihren Jesum verliebten See also:

• PSYCHE (//vxi7)

Psyche (1657), a collection of 205 See also:

• HYMNS

hymns, the most beautiful of which, such as, Liebe, See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die du mich zum Bilde deiner Gottheit hast gemacht and Mir nach, spricht Christus, unser Held, have been adopted in the German See also:

• PROTESTANT

Protestant hymnal . More remarkable, however, is his Geistreiche Sinn- and Schlussreime (16J7), afterwards called Cherubinischer Wandersmann (1674) . This is a collection of " Reimspruche " or rhymed distichs embodying a See also:

• STRANGE, SIR ROBERT (1721-1792)

strange mystical See also:

• PANTHEISM (Gr. 7rav, all, Oeos, god)

pantheism See also:

• DRAWN

drawn mainly from the writings of See also:

• JAKOB, LUDWIG HEINRICH VON (1759—1827)

Jakob Bohme and.his followers . Silesius delighted specially in the subtle paradoxes of See also:

• MYSTICISM (from Or. µuety, to shut the eyes; µuorrts, one initiated into the mysteries)

mysticism . The essence of See also:

• GOD

God, for instance, he held to be love; God, he said, can love nothing inferior to himself; but he cannot be an See also:

• OBJECT

object of love to himself without going out, so to speak, of himself, without manifesting his infinity in a finite See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form; in other words, by becoming See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man . God and man are therefore essentially one . A See also:

• COMPLETE

complete edition of Scheffler's See also:

• WORKS

works (Sdmtliche poetische Werke) was published by D . A .

See also:

• ROSENTHAL, TOBY EDWARD (1848– )

Rosenthal, 2 vols . (See also:

• REGENSBURG (RATISBON)

Regensburg, 1862) . Both the Cherubinischer Wandersmann and Heilige Seelenlust have been republished by G . Ellinger (1895 and 1901); a selection from the former See also:

• WORK

work by O . E . Hartleben (1896) . For further noticesof Silesius' See also:

• LIFE

life and work, see See also:

• HOFFMANN, AUGUST HEINRICH (1798–1874)
• HOFFMANN, ERNST THEODOR WILHELM (1776-1822)
• HOFFMANN, JOHANN JOSEPH (1805-1878)

Hoffmann von Fallersleben in See also:

• WEIMAR

Weimar'sches Jahrbuch I . (See also:

• HANOVER
• HANOVER (Ger. Hannover)

Hanover, 1854) ; A . Kahiert, Angelus Silesius (1853); C . Seltmann, Angelus Silesius and See also:

• SEINE
• SEINE (Lat. Sequana)
• SEINE, or SEAN (O. Fr. seigne, mod. seine, Lat. sagena, Gr. vaytivrl, a draw-net)

seine Mystik (1896), and a biog. by H . Mahn (See also:

• DRESDEN

Dresden, 1896) .