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Adam Haslmayr was a musician, public notary, schoolmaster and Paracelsian physician from the Tyrol who in 1612 wrote an enthusiastic response to the “Fama Fraternitatis” before this first Rosicrucian Manifesto had actually been printed. Haslmayr has long been ignored or even believed not to have existed at all in the annals of Rosicrucian scholarship. Carlos Gilly published not only an insightful biography of this all too real Rosicrucian advocate and Paracelsian adept, but also provided a comprehensive bibliographical account of a man who was suspected by the Jesuits of anti-Catholic sentiments. In December 1612 Haslmayr was arrested and sent to Genoa to serve as a galley slave. After having served his four-year sentence, the undeterred Haslmayr nevertheless contined to harbour an unshakable belief in political reforms based on a “theophrastic” (i.e. Paracelsian) interpretation of Christianity.
❡ Antwort an die lobwürdige Brüderschafft der Theosophen von RosenCreutz N. N. vom Adam Haselmayr archiducalem alumnum, Notarium seu Iudicem ordinarium Caesareum, der zeyten zum heyligen Creutz Dörflein bey Hall in Tyroll wohnende. Ad Famam Fraternitatis einfeltigst geantwortet. Anno 1612.
Getruckt im Jar, Anno 1612
In-4; [12] pp.
Copy: Weimar HAAB
