|
|
![]() Helping San Diego, California and beyond since 1997.
|
|
Click here and add this page to your favorites!

|
Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ANC-APO |
|
|
ANGELUS SILESIUS (1624-1677) , German religious poet, was born in 1624 at Breslau. His family name was Johann Scheffler, but he is generally known by the pseudonym Angelus Silesius, under which he published his poems and which marks the country of his birth
bishop
Protestant
drawn
Jakob
mysticism . The essence of God, for instance, he held to be love; God, he said, can love nothing inferior to himself; but he cannot be an object of love to himself without going out, so to speak, of himself, without manifesting his infinity in a finite form; in other words, by becoming man. God and man are therefore essentially one.A complete edition of Scheffler's works (Sdmtliche poetische Werke) was published by D. A. Rosenthal, 2 vols. (Regensburg, 1862). Both the Cherubinischer Wandersmann and Heilige Seelenlust have been republished by G. Ellinger (1895 and 1901); a selection from the former work
work
Hoffmann
Weimar
End of Article: ANGELUS SILESIUS (1624-1677) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
<a href="http://jcsm.org/StudyCenter/Encyclopedia/ANC_APO/ANGELUS_SILESIUS_1624_1677_.html"> ANGELUS SILESIUS (1624-1677) </a> |
|
|
(Previous) ANGELUS |
(Next) ANGERMUNDE |
|
Sponsored Advertisements