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Philalethes, Eirenaeus


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    • Philalethes, Eyraeneus
    • Philalethes, Aeyrenaeus
    • Philaletha, Eirenaeus
    • Philaletha
    • Philalethes, Eirenaeus Philoponos
    • Philalethes, Aeirenaeus
    • Philaletha, Eyraeneus
    • Eirenaeus Philalethes
    • Aeyrenaeus Philalethes
    • Most famous English-man styling himself anonymous
  • Identifies LC/NAF RWO

  • Identifies RWO

    • Birth Date

        [1627,1628]
    • Death Date

        1665
    • Associated Locale

        England
    • Associated Language

        English
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    • Sources

      • found: His The secret of the immortal liquor called Alkahest, 1683:t.p. (Eirenaeus Philalethes)
      • found: His A breviary of alchemy, 1678:t.p. (Aeyrenaeus Philalethes Anglus, cosmopolita)
      • found: NUC pre-1956(Philalethes, Eirenaeus, pseud.)
      • found: BM(Philalethes, Eirenaeus Philoponos)
      • found: DNB(under Starkey, G.: Eirenaeus Philalethes)
      • found: InU/Wing STC files(usage: Eyraeneus Philaletha cosmopolita...; a most famous English-man styling himself anonymous)
      • found: Newman, W.R. Gehennical fire : the lives of George Starkey ... c1994:CIP galley (works written by Starkey under the pseudonymous epithet of Eirenaeus Philalethes)
      • found: Secrets reveal'd; or, An open entrance to the shut-palace of the king
      • found: BM(has Philalethes, Eirenaeus entry but lists Introitus apertus under Philaletha, Anonymus)
      • found: Ferguson (vol. 1,p. 144: Philaletha's Introitus apertus; vol. 2, p. 503: Biographie medicale confuses Vaughan with Philaletha)
      • found: Wing(lists the English text under George Starkey)
      • found: DNB (vol. 54,p. 108: Starkey has been erroneously confused with Eirenaeus Philoponus Philalethes; vol. 58, p. 182: Vaughan must be carefully distinguished from the mystical writer who assumed the pseud. of Eirenaeus Philalethes)
      • found: Wilkinson, The problem of the identity of Eirenaeus Philalethes, Ambix 12:24-43, 1964(says is probably the man; Starkey the student; Vaughan identified as Eugenius Philalethes)
      • found: R. S. Wilkinson ... On the identity of "Eirenaeus Philalethes." Ambix XIX, Nov. 1972, no. 3,p. 204-((W1 AM105) Wilkinson is revoking his former suggestion, that Eirenaeus Philalethes was John Winthrop's pseudonym)
      • found: Ferguson(Philaletha, Eirenaeus)
      • found: Kern der Alchymie, 1685:title page (geschreiben durch Irenaeum Philoponum Philaletham)
      • found: Oxford dictionary of national biography website, 14 Sept. 2023(Starkey, George; born George Stirk on 8 or 9 June 1628 in Bermuda, died late summer of 1665; alchemist, medical practitioner, and writer; physician in the Boston area; emigrated to England in 1650; wrote under the pseudonym Eirenaeus Philalethes) - https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/26315
      • notfound: Halkett & Laing;Stonehill, A. Anonyma and pseudonyma.
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    • Change Notes

      • 1985-03-15: new
      • 2023-09-19: revised
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