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Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535) was a celebrated German wizard.


Biography

early life

Agrippa was born in 1486.


later life

During his lifetime, he authored more than one book. He was imprisoned by Muggles because they thought his works were evil.[1]


death and post-mortem

Agrippa died in 1535. By the 1990s, he was featured on a Chocolate Frog Card. This card was one of only two that were missing from Ron Weasley's collection when he met Harry Potter in 1991 (the other being Ptolemy).[2]

Behind the scenes

  • Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (14861535) was a German soldier, physician and author whose major works include Declamatio de nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus (Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex), a book first published in 1529 that asserts that women are morally and theologically superior to men, and De occulta philosophia libri tres (Three Books on Occult Philosophy), a series of books covering a wide variety of occult topics first published between 1531 and 1533. He was an adept in alchemy, astrology, and magic. His interest in the occult lead to criticism, and caused him to lose several jobs, but he is not known to have been imprisoned for it.[3]

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. "Famous Wizard Cards" on The Harry Potter Lexicon
  2. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 6
  3. "Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa" on Wikipedia
Cornelius Agrippa

An imprisoned Agrippa.

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