German polymath, physician, legal scholar, soldier, theologian, and occult writer.
Biography
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486–1535) was a German polymath, physician, legal scholar, soldier, theologian, and occult writer. He is best known for his three-volume work "De Occulta Philosophia" (Three Books of Occult Philosophy), published in 1533.
Agrippa's work synthesized Renaissance magic, drawing on Kabbalah, Hermeticism, and neo-Platonism. His book remains the foundational text of Western ceremonial magic and esoteric philosophy.
His "Three Books of Occult Philosophy" is the foundational text of Western esoteric magic and Renaissance occultism.