Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim. First published Fri Mar 30, 2007; substantive revision Thu Apr 7, 2011 Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486–1535) had two very different and contradictory identities.
He was the author of the most comprehensive and most widely known book on magic and all occult arts, De occulta philosophia libri tres / Three Books of Occult Philosophy (henceforth cited as OP, followed by book and chapter number), but also the author of a sweeping attack on every field of human learning (including magic and the occult arts), De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum et artium, atque excellentia Verbi Dei, declamatio invectiva / On the Uncertainty and Vanity of the Arts and Sciences: An Invective Declamation (1530; henceforth cited as De vanitate, followed by chapter number).
In his own century, both books were widely known, frequently reprinted, and often denounced as dangerous and heretical. Johann Reuchlin. Johann Reuchlin Johann Reuchlin (sometimes Johannes) (29 January 1455 – 30 June 1522) was a German humanist and a scholar of Greek and Hebrew.
For much of his life, he was the real centre of all Greek and Hebrew teaching in Germany. Early life[edit] Jost Ammon von Nürnberg, 1599: Kunstbüchlin. Wappen - Kunstbüchlin. Kunstbüchlin : Darinnen neben Fürbildung vieler... A Tudor Bestiary.