Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Engraving by Theodor de Bry, 1598
Born	14 September 1486 Nettersheim, Electorate of Cologne, Holy Roman Empire
Died	18 February 1535(1535-02-18) (aged 48) Grenoble, Kingdom of France
Alma mater	University of Cologne
Occupation(s)	Occult writer, theologian, physician, legal expert, and soldier

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (/əˈɡrɪpə/; German: [aˈgʀɪpa]; 14 September 1486 – 18 February 1535) was a German Renaissance polymath, physician, legal scholar, soldier, knight, theologian, and occult writer. Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy published in 1533 drew heavily upon Kabbalah, Hermeticism, and neo-Platonism. His book was widely influential among esotericists of the early modern period, and was condemned as heretical by the inquisitor of Cologne.^[1]