Jakob Boehme (1575 - 1624)
Jakob Böhme (probably April 24, 1575 [ 1 ] – November 17, 1624) was a German Christian mystic and theologian . He is considered an original thinker within the Lutheran tradition, and his first book, commonly known as Aurora , caused a great scandal. In contemporary English, his name may be spelled Jacob Boehme ; in seventeenth-century England it was also spelled Behmen , approximating the contemporary English pronunciation of the German Böhme . [From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_B%C3%B6hme ]