Philalethes, Eirenaeus
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Name (Latin)
Philalethes, Eirenaeus
Other forms of name
Aeyrenaeus Philalethes
Eirenaeus Philalethes
Most famous English-man styling himself anonymous
Philaletha
Philaletha, Eirenaeus
Philalethes, Aeirenaeus
Philalethes, Aeyrenaeus
Philalethes, Eirenaeus Philoponos
Philalethes, Eyraeneus
Philaletha, Eyraeneus
Date of birth
1627
Date of death
1700
Associated country
Great Britain
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- BM(has Philalethes, Eirenaeus entry but lists Introitus apertus under Philaletha, Anonymus)
- 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)
- Ferguson (vol. 1,p. 144: Philaletha's Introitus apertus; vol. 2, p. 503: Biographie medicale confuses Vaughan with Philaletha)
- Ferguson(Philaletha, Eirenaeus)
- Kern der Alchymie, 1685:title page (geschreiben durch Irenaeum Philoponum Philaletham)
- 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 ( (Oxford dictionary of national biography website, 14 Sept. 2023) )
- 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)
- Secrets reveal'd; or, An open entrance to the shut-palace of the king
- 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)
- Wing(lists the English text under George Starkey)
- His The secret of the immortal liquor called Alkahest, 1683:t.p. (Eirenaeus Philalethes)
- His A breviary of alchemy, 1678:t.p. (Aeyrenaeus Philalethes Anglus, cosmopolita)
- NUC pre-1956(Philalethes, Eirenaeus, pseud.)
- BM(Philalethes, Eirenaeus Philoponos)
- DNB(under Starkey, G.: Eirenaeus Philalethes)
- InU/Wing STC files(usage: Eyraeneus Philaletha cosmopolita...; a most famous English-man styling himself anonymous)
- Newman, W.R. Gehennical fire : the lives of George Starkey ... c1994:CIP galley (works written by Starkey under the pseudonymous epithet of Eirenaeus Philalethes)