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Periodical: Hermes (Karlsruhe)

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Hermes.
Eine Zeitschrift in zwanglos Heften zur endlichen Beruhigung für Zweifler und Sucher.
1805 Annual?
Karlsruhe, Germany. Language: German. Editor: L. Fr. von Sternhain.
Succeeds: Hermetisches Journal (1801)

1/1, 1805. 4 Saxon Thaler a year. Continues pagination of Hermetisches Journal. According to Christopher McIntosh, this was a product of the Hermetische Gesellschaft founded in 1796 by Carl Arnolg Kortun, of which Sternhain became head in 1805. McIntosh identifies him as Baron von Sternhaym of Karlsruhe. Listed in H.C. Bolton, A Select Bibliography of Chemistry, 1492-1902, Second Supplement (Washington, D.C., 1904), 205.

Other Sources:
Issues:Hermes V1 N1 1805
Hermes V1 N2 1806
Claude-Generated Themes:   Read from 1805–1806, Hermes (Karlsruhe) is an early German Hermetic journal — the adepts and hidden wisdom of the Western esoteric tradition in the Masonic-Hermetic key of the Napoleonic era. The Fraktur OCR is thin, so this reading leans on the recoverable esoteric vocabulary (adept, Hermetic, occult), but its lineage is plain: the learned German occultism of the early nineteenth century.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Hermeticism and Western Esotericism | Occult Science and Esoteric Philosophy