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See also:FRIEDRICH CHRISTOPH See also:OETINGER (1702-1782) , See also:German divine and theosophist, was See also:horn at See also:Goppingen on the 6th of May 1702 . He studied See also:theology at See also:Tubingen (1722-1728), and was much impressed by the See also:works of See also:Jakob Bohme . On the completion of his university course, See also:Oetinger spent some years in travel . In 1730 he visited See also:Count See also:Zinzendorf at See also:Herrnhut, remaining there some months as teacher of See also:Hebrew and See also:Greek . During his travels, in his eager See also:search for knowledge, he made the acquaintance of mystics and separatists, Christians and learned See also:Jews, theologians and physicians alike . At See also:Halle he studied See also:medicine . After some delay he was ordained to the See also:ministry, and held several pastorates . While pastor (from 1746) at Waldorf near See also:Berlin, he studied See also:alchemy and made many experiments, his See also:idea being to use his knowledge for symbolic purposes . These practices exposed him to the attacks of persons who misunderstood him . " My See also:religion," he once said, " is the See also:parallelism of Nature and See also:Grace." Oetinger translated See also:Swedenborg's See also:philosophy of See also:heaven and See also:earth, and added notes of his own . Eventually (1766) he became See also:prelate at Murrhardt, where he died on the loth of See also:February 1782 . Oetinger's autobiography was published by J . Hamberger in 1845 . He published about seventy works, in which he expounded his theosophic views . A collected edition, Samtliche Schriften (1st See also:section, Homiletische Schriften, 5 vols., 1858—1866; and section, Theosophische Werke, 6 vols., 1858—1863), was prepared by K . F . C . Ehmann, who also wrote Oetinger's Leben and Briefe (1859) . See also C . A . Auberlen, See also:Die Theosophie Friedr . Chr, Oetinger's (1847; and ed., 1859), and See also:Herzog, See also:Friedrich Christoph Olinger (1902) . |
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