Jakob Böhme (; 1575 – November 17, 1624) was a German
Christian mystic and
theologian. He is considered an original thinker within the
Lutheran tradition, and his first book, commonly known as
Aurora, caused a great scandal. In contemporary English, his name may be spelled
Jacob Boehme; in seventeenth-century England it was also spelled
Behmen, approximating the contemporary English pronunciation of the German
Böhme.