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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Jakob Böhme was born on 24 April 1575 in Germany, a Lutheran tradesman who received mystical visions he felt compelled to record. His first book, Aurora, scandalized the Lutheran establishment and brought him trouble with church authorities. He continued writing Christian mystical theology despite the controversy, blending his visionary experiences with Protestant thought in ways his contemporaries found both original and unsettling. His work lay largely outside formal academic philosophy, yet it seeped into the groundwater of German thought. By the 19th century, figures in German idealism and Romanticism were drawing on his ideas, and Hegel went so far as to name him the first German philosopher. He died on 17 November 1624, having spent his life translating inner light into words the learned world wasn't ready to receive.