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List of alchemists

Index List of alchemists

An alchemist is a person versed in the art of alchemy. [1]

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A. E. Waite

Arthur Edward Waite (2 October 1857 – 19 May 1942), commonly known as A. E. Waite, was an American-born British poet and scholarly mystic who wrote extensively on occult and esoteric matters, and was the co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck.

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Adam McLean

Adam McLean (born 1948, in Glasgow) is a Scottish writer on alchemical texts and symbolism.

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Agathodaemon (alchemist)

Agathodaemon (Ἀγαθοδαίμων, Agathodaímōn) was an alchemist in late Roman Egypt, known only from fragments quoted in medieval alchemical treatises, chiefly the Anepigraphos, which refer to works of his believed to be from the 3rd century.

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Al-Farabi

Al-Farabi (known in the West as Alpharabius; c. 872 – between 14 December, 950 and 12 January, 951) was a renowned philosopher and jurist who wrote in the fields of political philosophy, metaphysics, ethics and logic.

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Al-Kindi

Abu Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī (أبو يوسف يعقوب بن إسحاق الصبّاح الكندي; Alkindus; c. 801–873 AD) was an Arab Muslim philosopher, polymath, mathematician, physician and musician.

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Al-Tughrai

Mu'ayyad al-Din Abu Isma‘il al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Tughra'i (Arabic: العميد فخر الكتاب الملقب مؤيد الدين أبو إسماعيل الحسين بن علي بن محمد بن عبد الصمد الدؤلي الكناني; اسماعیل طغرایی اسپهانی) (1061 – c. 1121) was an 11th–12th century poet and alchemist.

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Alain de Lille

Alain de Lille (or Alanus ab Insulis) (11281202/03) was a French theologian and poet.

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Albertus Magnus

Albertus Magnus, O.P. (c. 1200 – November 15, 1280), also known as Saint Albert the Great and Albert of Cologne, was a German Catholic Dominican friar and bishop.

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Albus Dumbledore

Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore is a fictional character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.

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Alchemy

Alchemy is a philosophical and protoscientific tradition practiced throughout Europe, Africa, Brazil and Asia.

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Alessandro Cagliostro

Count Alessandro di Cagliostro (2 June 1743 – 26 August 1795) was the alias of the occultist Giuseppe Balsamo (in French usually referred to as Joseph Balsamo). Cagliostro was an Italian adventurer and self-styled magician.

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Ali Puli

Ali Puli, also known as Alipili, is the attributed author of a number of 17th-century alchemical and hermetic texts.

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Alvars

The alvars, also spelt as alwars or azhwars (āḻvārkaḷ, Tamil: ஆழ்வார்கள் ‘those immersed in god’) were Tamil poet-saints of South India who espoused bhakti (devotion) to the Hindu Supreme god Vishnu or his avatar Krishna in their songs of longing, ecstasy and service.

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Andreas Libavius

Andreas Libavius or Andrew Libavius (c. 1555 – 25 July 1616) was a German physician and chemist.

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Antoine Faivre

Antoine Faivre (born in Reims June 5, 1934) is a prominent French scholar of Western esotericism.

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Anton Josef Kirchweger

Anton Kirchweger (died 1746) was the editor or the author of the very influential book Aurea Catena Homeri (Golden Chain of Homer).

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Aristotle

Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs,; 384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidiki, in the north of Classical Greece.

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Arnaldus de Villa Nova

Arnaldus de Villa Nova (also called Arnau de Vilanova in Valencian, his language, Arnaldus Villanovanus, Arnaud de Ville-Neuve or Arnaldo de Villanueva, c. 1240–1311) was a physician and a religious reformer.

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Artephius

Artephius (or Artefius) (c. 1150) is a writer to whom a number of alchemical texts are ascribed.

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Arthur Dee

Arthur Dee (13 July 1579 – September or October 1651) was a physician and alchemist.

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Arunagirinathar

Arunagirinaadhar (Aruna-giri-naadhar, Tamil: அருணகிரிநாதர்,, IPA/Tamil) was a Tamil great saint-poet who lived during the 15th century in Tamil Nadu, India.

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Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland

is a Japanese role-playing video game developed by Gust Co. Ltd..

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August Nordenskiöld

August Nordenskiöld or Nordenskjöld (6 February 1754 in Sipoo, Finland – 10 December 1792 in Sierra Leone, Africa) was a Finnish-Swedish alchemist and Swedenborgian critic of slavery.

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August Strindberg

Johan August Strindberg (22 January 184914 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter.

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Avicenna

Avicenna (also Ibn Sīnā or Abu Ali Sina; ابن سینا; – June 1037) was a Persian polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant physicians, astronomers, thinkers and writers of the Islamic Golden Age.

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Baro Urbigerus

Baro or Baru Urbigerus was a seventeenth-century writer on alchemy.

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Basil Valentine

Basil Valentine is the Anglicised version of the name Basilius Valentinus, ostensibly a 15th-century alchemist, possibly Canon of the Benedictine Priory of Saint Peter in Erfurt, Germany but more likely a pseudonym used by one or several 16th-century German authors.

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Basset Jhones

Basset Jhones (sometimes recorded as Basset Jones) (born 1613 or 1614, date of death unknown) was a Welsh alchemist, medical doctor and grammarian.

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Benedictus Figulus

Benedictus Figulus (born December 29, 1567) of Utenhofen was a German alchemist, publisher, and Rosicrucian.

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Bernard Trevisan

Bernard Trevisan (Bernard of Treviso, Bernardus Trevisanus) was an Italian alchemist who lived from 1406-1490.

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Calid

Calid, Kalid, or King Calid is a legendary figure in alchemy, latterly associated with the historical Khalid ibn Yazid (d. 704), an Umayyad prince.

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Carl Jung

Carl Gustav Jung (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology.

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Chinese alchemy

Chinese alchemy is an ancient Chinese scientific and technological approach to alchemy, a part of the larger tradition of Taoist body-spirit cultivation developed from the traditional Chinese understanding of medicine and the body.

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Chymes

Chymes (Χύμης.) was a Greco Roman alchemist who lived before the third century.

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Claude Duval

Claude Du Vall (164321 January 1670) was a French-born, gentleman highwayman in post-Restoration Britain.

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Claude Frollo

Monseigneur Claude Frollo is a fictional character and the main antagonist from Victor Hugo's 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.

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Cleopatra the Alchemist

Cleopatra the Alchemist who likely lived during the 3rd century, was a Greek Egyptian alchemist, author, and philosopher.

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Count of St. Germain

The Comte de Saint Germain (born circa. 1691/1712 – died 27 February 1784) was a European adventurer, with an interest in science and the arts.

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Daniel Stolz von Stolzenberg

Daniel Stolz von Stolzenberg (Daniel Stolcius) (1600–1660) was a Bohemian physician and writer on alchemy, a pupil of Michael Maier in Prague.

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Dhul-Nun al-Misri

Dhūl-Nūn Abū l-Fayḍ Thawbān b. Ibrāhīm al-Miṣrī (ذو النون المصري; d. Giza, in 245/859 or 248/862), often referred to as Dhūl-Nūn al-Miṣrī or Zūl-Nūn al-Miṣrī for short, was an early Egyptian Muslim mystic and ascetic of Nubian origin.

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Diablo (Marvel Comics)

Diablo (Esteban Corazón de Ablo) is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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Diane di Prima

Diane di Prima (born August 6, 1934) is an American poet.

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Dionysius Andreas Freher

Dionysius Andreas Freher (1649–1728) was a Christian mystic, most famous for his extensive commentaries on Jacob Boehme.

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Edmund Dickinson

Edmund Dickinson or Dickenson (1624–1707) was an English royal physician and alchemist, author of a syncretic philosophical system.

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Edmund Oscar von Lippmann

Edmund Oscar von Lippmann (January 9, 1857 in Vienna – September 24, 1940 in Halle) was a German chemist and natural science historian.

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Edward Dyer

Sir Edward Dyer (October 1543 – May 1607) was an English courtier and poet.

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Edward Kelley

Sir Edward Kelley or Kelly, also known as Edward Talbot (1 August 1555 – 1 November 1597), was an English Renaissance occultist and self-declared spirit medium.

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Egypt (Roman province)

The Roman province of Egypt (Aigyptos) was established in 30 BC after Octavian (the future emperor Augustus) defeated his rival Mark Antony, deposed Queen Cleopatra VII, and annexed the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt to the Roman Empire.

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Elias Ashmole

Elias Ashmole (23 May 1617 – 18 May 1692) was an English antiquary, politician, officer of arms, astrologer and student of alchemy.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Ethan A. Hitchcock (general)

Ethan Allen Hitchcock (May 18, 1798 – August 5, 1870) was a career United States Army officer and author who had War Department assignments in Washington, D.C., during the American Civil War, in which he served as a major general.

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Eugène Canseliet

Eugène Léon Canseliet (December 18, 1899, Sarcelles – April 12, 1982, Savignies), was a French writer and alchemist.

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F. Sherwood Taylor

Frank Sherwood Taylor (1897 – 5 January 1956) was a British historian of science, museum curator, and chemist who was Director of the Science Museum in London, England.

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Fantastic Four

The Fantastic Four is a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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François Béroalde de Verville

François Béroalde de Verville (Paris, 27 April 1556 – 19–26 October 1626, Tours) was a French Renaissance novelist, poet and intellectual.

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François Hotman

François Hotman (23 August 1524 – 12 February 1590) was a French Protestant lawyer and writer, associated with the legal humanists and with the monarchomaques, who struggled against absolute monarchy.

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Franz Tausend

Franz Seraph Tausend, "Der Goldmacher" (July 5, 1884 - July 9, 1942) was a 20th-century German alchemist.

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Frater Albertus

Frater Albertus Spagyricus (Dr. Albert Richard Riedel) born May 5,(1911–1984); founder of the Paracelsus Research Society in Salt Lake City, which later evolved into the Paracelsus College.

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Frederick Clod

Frederick Clod (or Clodius) (1625 – after 1661), was a physician and ‘mystical chemist’ of German extraction.

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Fulcanelli

Fulcanelli (fl. 1920s) was the name used by a French alchemist and esoteric author, whose identity is still debated.

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Fullmetal Alchemist

is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa.

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Georg von Welling

Georg von Welling (1655–1727) was a Bavarian alchemical and theosophical writer, known for his 1719 work Opus mago-cabalisticum, published under the pseudonym Gregorius Anglus Sallwigt.

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George Rapp

Johann Georg Rapp (November 1, 1757 in Iptingen, Duchy of Württemberg – August 7, 1847 in Economy, Pennsylvania) was the founder of the religious sect called Harmonists, Harmonites, Rappites, or the Harmony Society.

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George Ripley (alchemist)

Sir George Ripley (c. 1415–1490) was an English Augustinian canon, author, and alchemist.

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George Starkey

George Starkey (1628–1665) was a Colonial American alchemist, medical practitioner, and writer of numerous commentaries and chemical treatises that were widely circulated in Europe and influenced prominent men of science, including Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton.

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Geralt of Rivia

Geralt of Rivia (Geralt z Rivii) is a fictional character, the protagonist of The Witcher series of short stories and novels by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski, as well as its adaptations, which include film, TV series, comic books and video games.

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Gerhard Dorn

Gerhard Dorn (c. 1530 – 1584) was a Belgian philosopher, translator, alchemist, physician and bibliophile.

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Gilles de Rais

Gilles de Montmorency-Laval (prob. c. September 1405 – 26 October 1440), Baron de Rais, was a knight and lord from Brittany, Anjou and Poitou, a leader in the French army, and a companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc.

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Giuseppe Francesco Borri

Giuseppe Francesco Borri (4 May 1627 in Milan – 20 August 1695 in Rome) was an alchemist, prophet and doctor.

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Harry Potter

Harry Potter is a series of fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling.

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Haunting Ground

Haunting Ground, known in Japan as Demento, is a survival horror video game developed and published by Capcom for the PlayStation 2 in 2005.

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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (14 September 1486 – 18 February 1535) was a German polymath, physician, legal scholar, soldier, theologian, and occult writer.

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Heinrich Khunrath

Heinrich Khunrath (c. 1560 – 9 September 1605), or Dr.

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Hellblazer

Hellblazer (also known as John Constantine, Hellblazer) is an American contemporary horror comic book series, originally published by DC Comics, and subsequently by the Vertigo imprint since March 1993 when the imprint was introduced.

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Hennig Brand

Hennig Brand (c. 1630c. 1692 or c. 1710) was a merchant and alchemist in Hamburg.

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Herbert Silberer

Herbert Silberer (February 28, 1882 – January 12, 1923) was a Viennese psychoanalyst involved with the professional circle surrounding Sigmund Freud which included other pioneers of psychological study as Carl Gustav Jung, Alfred Adler and others.

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Hermes Trismegistus

Hermes Trismegistus (Ἑρμῆς ὁ Τρισμέγιστος, "thrice-greatest Hermes"; Mercurius ter Maximus; חרם תלת מחזות) is the purported author of the ''Hermetic Corpus'', a series of sacred texts that are the basis of Hermeticism.

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Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English mathematician, astronomer, theologian, author and physicist (described in his own day as a "natural philosopher") who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time, and a key figure in the scientific revolution.

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Islamic Golden Age

The Islamic Golden Age is the era in the history of Islam, traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 14th century, during which much of the historically Islamic world was ruled by various caliphates, and science, economic development and cultural works flourished.

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Ivy Valentine

, commonly called, is a fictional character in the ''Soul'' series of video games.

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Jabir ibn Hayyan

Abu Mūsā Jābir ibn Hayyān (جابر بن حیانl fa, often given the nisbas al-Bariqi, al-Azdi, al-Kufi, al-Tusi or al-Sufi; fl. c. 721c. 815), also known by the Latinization Geber, was a polymath: a chemist and alchemist, astronomer and astrologer, engineer, geographer, philosopher, physicist, and pharmacist and physician.

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Jakob Böhme

Jakob Böhme (1575 – 17 November 1624) was a German philosopher, Christian mystic, and Lutheran Protestant theologian.

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James Price (chemist)

James Price (1752–1783) was an English chemist and alchemist who claimed to be able to turn mercury into silver or gold.

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Jan Baptist van Helmont

Jan Baptist van Helmont (12 January 1580 – 30 December 1644) was a Flemish chemist, physiologist, and physician.

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Jean D'Espagnet

Jean d'Espagnet (1564 – c. 1637) was a French Renaissance polymath.

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Jean de Meun

Jean de Meun (or de Meung) was a French author best known for his continuation of the Roman de la Rose.

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Jean de Roquetaillade

Jean de Roquetaillade (ca. 1310 – between 1366 and 1370) was a French Franciscan alchemist.

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Johann Christoph von Wöllner

Johann Christoph von Wöllner (19 May 1732, Döberitz, Margraviate of Brandenburg – 10 September 1800, Grossriez near Beeskow) was a Prussian pastor and politician under King Frederick William II.

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Johann Daniel Mylius

Johann Daniel Mylius (ca. 15831642) was a composer for the lute, and writer on alchemy.

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Johann Friedrich Schweitzer

Johann Friedrich Schweitzer or Sweitzer, usually known as Helvetius (1630 – 1709) was a Dutch physician and alchemical writer of German extraction.

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Johann Georg Faust

Johann Georg Faust (c. 1480 or 1466 – c. 1541), also known in English as John Faustus, was an itinerant alchemist, astrologer, and magician of the German Renaissance (or possibly of two such individuals using the Faustus moniker, one called Johann and the other Georg).

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Johann Joachim Becher

Johann Joachim Becher (6 May 1635 – October 1682) was a German physician, alchemist, precursor of chemistry, scholar and adventurer, best known for his development of the phlogiston theory of combustion, and his advancement of Austrian cameralism.

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Johann Moriaen

Johann Moriaen (born Nuremberg c.1591-1668) was a German alchemist and early chemist, known as an associate of Samuel Hartlib.

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Johann of Laz

Johann of Laz, or Johannes von Laaz, Joannes de Lasnioro, was a Bohemian alchemist during the first half of the fifteenth century.

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Johann von Löwenstern-Kunckel

Johann Kunckel, awarded Swedish nobility in 1693 under the Swedish name von Löwenstern-Kunckel and the German version of the name Kunckel von Löwenstern (1630 - prob. 20 March 1703), German chemist, was born in 1630 (or 1638), near Rendsburg, his father being alchemist to the court of Holstein.

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Johannes Nicolaus Furichius

Johannes Nicolaus Furichius (1602–1633) was a Franco-German neo-latin Imperial poet laureate, pharmacist, doctor of medicine and alchemist from Strasbourg.

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Johannes Trithemius

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John Dastin

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John Dee

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Joost Ritman

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Kanada (philosopher)

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Lawrence M. Principe

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M. M. Pattison Muir

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Manly P. Hall

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Marcellin Berthelot

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Marie-Louise von Franz

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Martin Ruland the Elder

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Martin Ruland the Younger

Martin Ruland the Younger (11 November 1569 – 23 April 1611), also known as Martinus Rulandus or Martin Rulandt, was a German physician and alchemist.

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Mary the Jewess

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Max Magnus Norman

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Melchior Cibinensis

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Michael Maier

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Moses of Alexandria

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Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi

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Muhammed ibn Umail al-Tamimi

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Nagarjuna (metallurgist)

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Nayanars

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Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke

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Nicolas Flamel

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Olympiodorus of Thebes

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Ortolanus

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Ostanes

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Oswald Croll

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Paphnutia the Virgin

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Paracelsus

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Perenelle Flamel

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Persian people

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Petrus Bonus

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Pseudepigrapha

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Pseudo-Aristotle

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Pseudo-Democritus

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Pseudo-Geber

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R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz

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Ramalinga Swamigal

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Ramon Llull

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Rasayana

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Richard Stanihurst

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Robert Boyle

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Roger Bacon

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Rudolf Steiner

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Rudolf von Sebottendorf

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Samuel Norton (alchemist)

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Sendivogius

Michael Sendivogius (Michał Sędziwój; 1566–1636) was a Polish alchemist, philosopher, and medical doctor.

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Serge Hutin

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Siddhar

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Soulcalibur

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Spain

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Stephanus of Alexandria

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Tamils

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Terence McKenna

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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

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The Morganville Vampires

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The Secret Series

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The Vampire Chronicles

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The Venture Bros.

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The Wild Wild West

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The Witcher (video game)

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Thomas Charnock

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Thomas Henshaw (alchemist)

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Thomas Norton (alchemist)

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Titus Burckhardt

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Tycho Brahe

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Vampire Academy

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Vemana

Gona Vema Reddy, popularly known as Vemana, was born in Nellore.

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Wakfu

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Wei Boyang

Wei Boyang was a noted Chinese writer and alchemist of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

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William Backhouse

William Backhouse (17 January, 1593 – 30 May, 1662) was a renowned English Rosicrucian philosopher, alchemist, and astrologer.

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William R. Newman

William R. Newman (born March 13, 1955) is Distinguished Professor and Ruth N. Halls Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University.

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Wouter Hanegraaff

Wouter Jacobus Hanegraaff (born April 10, 1961) is full professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and related currents at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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Yu-Gi-Oh! GX

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Zhang Guolao

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Zosimos of Panopolis

Zosimos of Panopolis (Ζώσιμος ὁ Πανοπολίτης; also known by the Latin name Zosimus Alchemista, i.e. "Zosimus the Alchemist") was an Egyptian alchemist and Gnostic mystic who lived at the end of the 3rd and beginning of the 4th century AD.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alchemists

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