Book Launch: The Mage’s Images
Join us for an afternoon of lectures on Heinrich Khunrath, one of the great Hermetic philosophers.
Event details of
Book Launch: The Mage’s Images
- Date
- 18 October 2025
- Time
- 14:00 -16:30
- Location
- Allard Pierson
From 2024-2025, Peter J. Forshaw has published a monumental four-volume work (Brill Academic Publishers) about Heinrich Khunrath (1560–1605), one of the great Hermetic philosophers. To celebrate this landmark publication, an afternoon of lectures will be dedicated to works by Khunrath and kindred spirits from the State-owned part of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica.
- 13:15: Entrance with coffee/tea
- 14:00: Opening remarks by Els van der Plas, Director of the Allard Pierson
- 14:10: Lecture by Prof. Dr. Wouter Hanegraaff, Centre for History of Hermetic Philosophy, University of Amsterdam
- 14:30: Lecture by Ellen Hausner, University of Oxford (Allard Pierson Friends Fellow)
- 14:50: Lecture by Amber Rozenrichter, Centre for the History of Hermetic Philosophy
- 15:10: Short break
- 15:20: Lecture by Dr. Jennifer Rampling, Princeton University
- 15:50: Lecture by Dr. Peter Forshaw, Centre for the History of Hermetic Philosophy
- 16:20: Q&A and closing remarks led by Prof. Dr. Wouter Hanegraaff
About Allard Pierson
The Allard Pierson is the museum and knowledge institute for the heritage collections of the University of Amsterdam.
It is one of the UvA-podia in the University Quarter.
