Basil Valentine
✓ Source-basedstablePseudonymous author
Fame51.2
Momentum3.3
Languages17
Peak1800s
In century#610
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.
Also inDeutsch
Photos 4
!["Frater Basilius Valentinus, monk of the Benedictine order and Hermetic philosopher": imaginary portrait in the frontispiece from Chymische Schrifften, 1717[1]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Chymische_Schrifften_1717_Basilius_Valentinus_Frontispiece.jpg/330px-Chymische_Schrifften_1717_Basilius_Valentinus_Frontispiece.jpg)
"Frater Basilius Valentinus, monk of the Benedictine order and Hermetic philosopher": imaginary portrait in the frontispiece from Chymische Schrifften, 1717[1]
The Peterskirche, Erfurt, as it appeared in 2007
Illustration of the first key
Table of alchemical symbols, from an English translation of his Last Will and Testament, 1671Scientists from Germany 6
About this person
Country
GermanyCategory
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1394 to 1450 · aged 56
Written about in
17 languages
Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.