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Michael Maier

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Michael Maier (1568–1622) was a German physician, a counsellor to Rudolf II Habsburg and a learned alchemist.

Biography

Maier was born in Hindsburg, Holstein, in 1568. He attained in 1597 the diploma of doctor in philosophy and medicine, exerted the medical profession in Rostock and Prague and became the physician and imperial counsellor of Rudolf II. The interest of the emperor for the occult was the reason of his high esteem for Maier. Maier commented Hermes Trismegistus and dedicated with the emperor to the research of the secrets of nature. After Rudolf's death, in 1612, Maier went servicing other German princes and particularly the prince of Nassau, great protector of alchemy. In 1620 he moved to Magdeburg where he died in 1622 at the age of 54, leaving a noteworthy quantity of unpublished works.

References

  • Paul Arnold, Histoire des Rose-Croix, Mercure de France, Paris, 1955.
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