Johann Grasshoff
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Johann Grasshoff (c.1560 – 1623) was a Pomerania
n jurist, and alchemical writer. He is recorded also as a medical advisor to Ernest of Bavaria
, a Syndic, and an Episcopal counselor.
His writings include the Aperta Arca arcani artificiosissimi (1617) and a Cabala Chymica (1658). The compilation of the 1625 Dyas chymica tripartita is also attributed to him; it includes The Golden Age Restored of Henricus Madathanus, The Book of Lambspring of Nicholas Barnaud, and the Book of Alze.
Pomerania
Pomerania is a historical region on the south shore of the Baltic Sea. Divided between Germany and Poland, it stretches roughly from the Recknitz River near Stralsund in the West, via the Oder River delta near Szczecin, to the mouth of the Vistula River near Gdańsk in the East...
n jurist, and alchemical writer. He is recorded also as a medical advisor to Ernest of Bavaria
Ernest of Bavaria
Ernest of Bavaria was Prince-elector-archbishop of the Archbishopric of Cologne from 1583 to 1612 as successor of the expelled Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg. He was also bishop of Münster, Hildesheim, Freising and Liège....
, a Syndic, and an Episcopal counselor.
His writings include the Aperta Arca arcani artificiosissimi (1617) and a Cabala Chymica (1658). The compilation of the 1625 Dyas chymica tripartita is also attributed to him; it includes The Golden Age Restored of Henricus Madathanus, The Book of Lambspring of Nicholas Barnaud, and the Book of Alze.