German classical philology and alphabet mysticism
Franz Dornseiff
1888 – 1960
Franz Dornseiff was a German classical philologist who earned his doctorate at Heidelberg in 1916 under Franz Boll, expanding his dissertation into Das Alphabet in Mystik und Magie (1922), a foundational scholarly study of letter symbolism, number mysticism, and magical uses of the alphabet in antiquity. He held chairs at Greifswald and Leipzig, and despite persecution during the Nazi era for Jewish ancestry, remained one of the leading classicists of twentieth-century Germany.
GnosticismGematriaWestern / ClassicalPythagorean Number-Letter LinksGematria and Isopsephy (numerical values of letters)KabbalahIsopsephyAncient Greek / HellenisticVowels in Ancient MagicOrigin and Development of the Alphabet as a Mystical SystemZodiacal MagicOnomatologyNumber MysticismMagical ChantingSacred Geometry of the AlphabetAlphabet MysticismLetters as Planetary and Zodiacal SymbolsNeopythagoreanism
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