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  Johannes Trithemius - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
JOHANNES TRITHEMIUS (1462-1516), German historian and divine, was born at Trittenheim on the Moselle, on the 1st of February 1462.
Trithemius was, though an accomplished scholar, untrustworthy as a chronicler, and his Annales hirsaugienses (1514), Annales de origine Francorum, as well as his Chronologia mystica (1516) are, on this account, of doubtful value.
Trithemius and Kloster Sponheim (1882); and F. Wegele, in Allgemeine deutsche Biographic.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Johannes_Trithemius   (209 words)

  
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TRITHEMIUS, JOHANNES (1462–1516), German historian and divine, was born at Trittenheim on the Moselle, on the 1st of February 1462.
Trithemius was, though an accomplished scholar, untrustworthy as a chronicler, and his Annales hirsaugienses (1514), Amides de origine Francorum, as well as his Chronologia mystica (1516) are, on this account, of doubtful value.
Trithemius and Kloster Sponheim (1882) ; and F. Wegele, in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?content_id=66746&locale=en   (241 words)

  
 German monk's 500-year-old mystery solved
Johannes Trithemius, a German abbot, leading scholar and counselor to Emperor Maximilian I, had found a means of delivering messages within 24 hours that required no letters, no books, no messengers.
The encryption technique Trithemius employed is an early, primitive version of what would centuries later beget the Enigma machine, the ingenious device that Germany used during World War II to encrypt messages and that the Allies famously used to read those messages.
Trithemius was able to weather the controversy, though his role as an adviser to Maximilian may have fed it further, Ernst said.
www.post-gazette.com /healthscience/19980629bspirit1.asp   (1462 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: John Trithemius
A short visit to the monastery of Sponheim was to prove of decisive importance for the young Trithemius; hardly had the travellers taken leave of the monks when a snowstorm obliged them to return to the monastery.
But Trithemius sought the quiet and peace of a more retired life, and this he found as abbot of the Scottish monastery of St. Jacob, at Würzburg (1506).
Trithemius (Landshut, 1868); RULAND in Chiliancum, new ser., I, 45-68 (Bonn, 1869); SCHNEEGANS, Abt.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/15062a.htm   (916 words)

  
 Celenza
Johannes Trithemius, 1462-1516, the Benedictine, was a notable monastic humanist.
Trithemius, together with some of them, helped form the Rhenish literary sodality, an important vehicle in the German humanist movement, and went on to become abbot of two different monasteries, at Sponheim (1482-1506, abbot from 1484), and then Würzburg, where he remained for the last ten years of his life.
In the present work he offers an examination of Trithemius's magical work, arguing that Trithemius is especially interesting not so much because of the way he practiced magic, but rather because of the manner in which he justified it and the contextual place it held in his life and output.
www.esoteric.msu.edu /VolumeIII/HTML/Celenza.htm   (1349 words)

  
 Tertullian : MSS Known to Trithemius in 1492
Trithemius gives no incipit for these, and one might suspect that in fact he had not seen these works and that he just copied the titles from Jerome’s De viris illustribus, except that he mentions De spectaculis which is not listed there.
Trithemius was very active in the meetings of the group, and visited many of the monasteries, in the process obtaining books for his own abbey from monks who did not understand their worth.
Trithemius was a complex man whose attitudes included a sincere devotion to the monastic life, an even stronger commitment to humanistic literary studies, and an interest in the ‘secret knowledge’ of the time which he attempted to use for technical purposes.
www.tertullian.org /witnesses/trithemius.htm   (1683 words)

  
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ohannes Trithemius was born Johann Heidenberg in Trittenheim on the Mosel in what is now the German state of Rheinland-Pfalz on February 1, 1462.
Trithemius sets forth a hierarchy of angels and spirits ruling over regions of the Earth as well as days and hours.
This insistence on the consonance between magic and Christianity is particularly pronounced in Trithemius, a Benedictine Abbot.
www.renaissanceastrology.com /trithemius.html   (431 words)

  
 Polyalphabetic cipher
Alberti used a Caesar cipher to encrypt a message, but whenever he wanted to he would switch to a different alphabet, indicating that he had done so by capitalizing the first letter encrypted with the new alphabet.
Johannes Trithemius[?], in a book published after his death, invented a progressive key polyalphabetic cipher.
Trithemius' cypher was trivial to break, and Alberti's not much more difficult (the capitalized letter is a major clue to the cryptanalyst), but they laid the groundwork for future ciphers using the powerful ideas of polyalphabeticity and key progression.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/po/Polyalphabetic_substitution.html   (347 words)

  
 Rare Books In the National Cryptologic Museum
Abbott Johannes Trithemius, the author of the first printed book on cryptology, was considered one of the intellectuals of his day.
On his own, Johannes appealed for entrance to the University of Heidelberg, where the chancellor was so impressed that he accepted the youth and even arranged to waive the tuition fees.
The strange and bizarre terms and characters which Trithium [Trithemius] interspersed throughout the composition of the work soon caused him to be suspected of dealing in the fl art...
www.nsa.gov /publications/publi00013.cfm   (2925 words)

  
 Introduction to 'Goethe, Faust, and Science' seminar.
Johannes Trithemius, the abbot of Spanheim, where he assembled a huge library, and later of St. James at Wurtzburg had, as already noted, a reputation as a magician, which caused him many difficulties.
Trithemius wrote a notorious book (Steganographia), ostensibly about the evocation of spirits, but the part that survives is a system of secret writing; the rest he is supposed to have destroyed (although it might not have been written).
Trithemius encouraged him to commit his learning to writing, but he delayed publishing his magnum opus, On Occult Philosophy, for twenty years, publishing it in 1531 only after he had attempted to protect himself by recanting it in an apologetic profession of faith, On the Uncertainty and Vanity of the Sciences and Arts.
www.cs.utk.edu /~mclennan/Classes/UH348/Intro-IVB.html   (643 words)

  
 Johannes Trithemius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Trithemius’ treatise is devoted to the highest of the three ranks of angelic spirits called upon in advanced steganography.
Each in turn governs the world for 354 years and 4 months, and Trithemius describes the events that occurred during the various governments of each one.
This system, and its association with steganography, illustrates Trithemius’ enduring fascination with astrology and desire to integrate the various “arts” into a system in service of Christian theology and the Catholic faith.
www.hmml.org /exhibits/trithemius/Spirits.html   (210 words)

  
 Enochian language - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
Trithemius was intentional with his intermixing of cryptography and angelology, but his interest in angels was sincere, and not only a disguise for the ciphers within.
The Trithemius symbol for Pamersiel could also be attributed to similarities in the Hebrew Dalet or the Ethiopian G. When making these comparisons, it is easy to see influences across the Proto-Cannanite family, which is the family from which the entirety of influence is based.
He constantly mentioned Trithemius in his diaries of angelic conversations, was familiar with the work of Agrippa, and there is an obvious evolution from Agrippa's tables and sigils of occult study to Dee's angelic tables and sigils.
www.egnu.org /thelema/index.php/Enochian_language   (1883 words)

  
 Trithemius about Faust and Mercurio - research to Mantegna Tarocchi
Trithemius further suggests that Faustus is not only an unstable character and a vagabond, but also an active admirer of young boys.
Trithemius mentions Virdung's name once more, when he describes the arrival of the magician Johannes Mercurius (another charlatan, in his view) to Lyons, and his success at the French royal court.
It belongs to the background of this attitude that Trithemius himself was accused of practicing magic as a result of a confidential letter written by him and read by hostile eyes instead of the actual addressee.
trionfi.com /tarot/0m-mantegna-tarocchi/09-trithemius-faust-mercurio/index.php   (639 words)

  
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Trithemius (1462—1516) was an important German Benedictine abbot, humanist and reformer.
In the writings of Trithemius, religious reform is closely identified with reform of monastic education.
Trithemius was concerned with leading his order, through study, to the very sources of Western monasticism and culture.
www.textmanuscripts.com /home/archives/archivesdescription.php?m=123   (1434 words)

  
 Trithemius, Johannes :: Personalities : Gourt
Johannes Trithemius - Biography and introduction to Trithemius' astrology, magic and philosophy.
Steganographia, by Johannes Trithemius - English introduction with the main body in the original Latin.
Tertullian : MSS Known to Trithemius in 1492 - Academic discussion of Trithemius on Tertullian.
society.gourt.com /Religion-and-Spirituality/Esoteric-and-Occult/Personalities/Trithemius,-Johannes.html   (503 words)

  
 Johannes Trithemius - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
Johannes Trithemius (1 February 1462 - 13 December 1516) was born Johann Heidenberg.
The name by which he is more commonly known is derived from his native town of Trittenheim on the Moselle in Germany.
Hirsau was a monastery near Württemberg, whose abbot commissioned the work in 1495, but it took Trithemius until 1514 to finish the two volume, 1400 page work.
www.egnu.org /thelema/index.php?title=Johannes_Trithemius&redirect=no   (517 words)

  
 Magus as Renaissance Man
Trithemius publicly denied that he had any such abilities as to raise the dead, tell the future, or jinx thieves and scoundrels with incantations.
Trithemius had to have been aware of what he was doing (or not doing) when he omitted this crucial element of Pseudodionysian thought.
Trithemius often expressed his submission to the authority of the Church, but he never dropped a hint that either the word magic or the planetary magic to which he was given necessarily concluded in a limitation of the godhead.
www.duke.edu /~frankbo/pdf/magus.html   (8604 words)

  
 WU Libraries Special Collections - Cryptography
Along with Trithemius and Vignère, Porta is generally regarded as one of the founders of modern cryptography.
Having been accused of dealing in fl magic, Trithemius was at first reluctant to publish the work, and this may account for the discrepancy in dates.
Although he first published this work at Lyons in 1531, Trithemius apparently completed Steganographia sometime in 1500, and the work became known prior to the publication in 1518 of Polygraphiae, with which it is often confused.
library.wustl.edu /units/spec/rarebooks/semeiology/cryptography.html   (1099 words)

  
 Electronic Music News, MP3s, Community, Collaboration and Store   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Johannes Trithemius - - Biography and introduction to Trithemius' astrology, magic and philosophy.
Steganographia, by Johannes Trithemius - - English introduction with the main body in the original Latin.
Tertullian : MSS Known to Trithemius in 1492 - - Academic discussion of Trithemius on Tertullian.
www.internetdj.com /search/search.php?browse=/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Esoteric_and_Occult/Personalities/Trithemius,_Johannes   (295 words)

  
 Wired 3.07: Technopagans
Though Trithemius was a monk, he was also a hard-core magician, and his Steganographia and Polygraphiae were simultaneously works of encryption and theurgy - the art of invoking gods and spirits.
Trithemius was no pagan witch - in fact, he encouraged the Church to burn them.
Historians still can't decide whether Trithemius was disguising his magic as cryptography or vice versa, but the National Security Agency finds his works important enough to display them at its museum in Washington, DC.
www.wired.com /wired/archive/3.07/technopagans.html?pg=11&topic=   (453 words)

  
 Johannes Trithemius, humanist of the late Middle Ages
Johannes Trithemius, humanist of the late Middle Ages
In the year 1462, two years before the death of the important humanist and prelate of the church Nikolaus von Kues (Nicholas Cusanus), another important humanist scholar of the late middle ages named Johannes Trithemius was born in Trittenheim on the Mosel, just a few kilometers upriver from Kues.
After a period of internal strife, Johann Trithemius left the monastery at Sponheim and continued his work at the Abbey of St. Jakob in Würzburg.
mypage.bluewin.ch /Maasberg/eTrithemius.html   (315 words)

  
 Solved: The ciphers in book III of Trithemius's Steganographia Cryptologia - Find Articles
Johannes Trithemius (1462-1516), as author of the first printed work on cryptography, the Polygraphia published in 1518, is secure in his reputation as one of the founders of modern cryptography.2 His earlier work, the three books of Steganographia, composed ca.
To them, Trithemius is one of the main figures in the occult movement of the 16th century and his Steganographia is one of the main early modern demonological treatises.
Trithemius, it was alleged, was either a liar or (if he really could do these things) an employer of demons.7
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3926/is_199810/ai_n8820687   (767 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Actually, this is Johanne Trithemius (also Tritheim), the German abbot of Spanheim and a friend of Henry Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486-1533-5), the famed occultist commonly called 'Agrippa.' Besides his knowledge of medicine (Paracelsus was a student of his), Trithemius wrote a number of works on alchemy and magic.
It is also interesting that Abbot Trithemius is one of the references to the actual existence of a Doctor Faust, having written contemptuously of him in a 1507 letter.
The Steganographia of Trithemius (the great occult teacher of both Agrippa and Paracelsus) was written at the end of the fifteenth century, and became one of the most influential and notorious of occult texts throughout the sixteenth and seventeen th centuries.
www.yankeeclassic.com /miskatonic/library/reference/compendium/texts/t/trithemi.htm   (392 words)

  
 Johannes Trithemius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Dezember 1516 in Würzburg) war Abt im Kloster Sponheim und Mystiker.
Johannes Heidenberg wurde in Trittenheim an der Mosel geboren.
Er nannte sich später Johannes Trithemius, die lateinische Form seines Geburtsortes.
www.teachersparadise.com /ency/de/wikipedia/j/jo/johannes_trithemius.html   (74 words)

  
 Gutenberg Bible: The Copy on Paper - the Provenance
The ownership inscription from volume II Ilona Hubay has suggested that the King's copy may be the book referred to as 'Biblia tota' in the now lost manuscript list of the books which Johannes Trithemius (1462-1516) left to the library of the Schottenkloster.
If that were so, Trithemius might have got it as a result of his friendship with Peter Schoeffer, one of Gutenberg's staff.
Peter Schoeffer died in late 1502 or early 1503 and the books left by Trithemius to the Schottenkloster must have been acquired between 1506 and 1516, for when he ceased to be abbot of Sponheim in 1506 he could only take with him a few books as personal property, mainly on history.
www.bl.uk /treasures/gutenberg/paperprovenance.html   (322 words)

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