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- William Backhouse (* 17. Januar 1593 in , Berkshire; † 30. Mai 1662 ebenda) war ein englischer Alchemist. Backhouse wurde in Swallowfield Park, dem väterlichen Landsitz 5 Meilen südlich Reading, geboren. Er war einer der jüngeren Söhne des Parlamentsmitglieds, Kaufmanns und High Sheriff von Berkshire (1554–1626), studierte ab 1610 als Commoner am Christ Church College in Oxford, erwarb aber keinen Abschluss. Nach dem Antritt seines Erbes in Swallowfield Park befasste er sich mit Alchemie, Rosenkreuzer-Ideen und Astrologie. Diese Ideen gab er auch weiter zum Beispiel an Elias Ashmole, den er 1651 adoptierte und der später das Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum herausgab, eine Sammlung britischer alchemistischer Schriften. Er heiratete Anne Richards, mit der er zwei Söhne hatte, die vor ihm starben, und eine Tochter, die in zweiter Ehe einen Verwandten von Backhouse heiratete (Sir William Backhouse, 1641–1669) und in dritter Ehe (1638–1709), den 2. Earl of Clarendon. Er hinterließ einige alchemistische Manuskripte:
* The pleasant Founteine of Knowledge, angeblich zuerst 1413 in Französisch geschrieben und von Backhouse 1644 in englische Verse übersetzt
* Planctus Nature: The Complaint of Nature against the Erroneous Alchymist, ebenfalls eine Übersetzung angeblich von Jean de Meung
* The Golden Fleece, or the Flower of Treasures, ebenfalls eine Übersetzung aus dem Französischen von einem Solomon Trismosin, „Meister des Paracelsus“, und den Stein der Weisen behandelnd. Er soll auch einen Wegmesser für Kutschen erfunden haben (Way wiser). (de)
- William Backhouse (17 January 1593 – 30 May 1662) was an English philosopher, alchemist, astrologer, translator, and the esoteric mentor of Elias Ashmole. Born into the wealthy Backhouse family, Backhouse enjoyed an education at Oxford, and was likely exposed to alchemical teachings and the Rosicrucian manifestos of the 1610s. He married Anne Richards in 1637/8, and had three children. By 1651, he had become the mentor of Elias Ashmole, taking him as his "spiritual son and heir", the role for which his is best remembered. The following exchange of alchemical knowledge and manuscripts has been described as having an effect on Ashmole that "cannot be overstated". This relationship flourished in an intense exchange of alchemical documents and information, unaffected by Backhouse's poor health and fear of identification in Ashmole's publications. Backhouse, predeceased by all his siblings and children, but one, died in 1662, leaving all his possessions to his daughter, Flower Backhouse, the last of the Backhouse family. Only so much can be understood about Backhouse, for his devotion to esoteric knowledge, and his distaste for the public eye (in accordance with his motto). But the few contemporary sources that remain give a picture of Backhouse that shows him to be a "respected figure in a network of people involved in occult and philosophical studies" according to Jennifer Speake; a "most renown'd chymist, Rosicrucian, and a great encourager of those that studied chymistry and astrology" according to Anthony à Wood; and a "quiet, secretive man of an inventive mind [...] combining a gift for languages with a graceful poetic vein" according to C. H. Josten. (en)
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- William Backhouse (* 17. Januar 1593 in , Berkshire; † 30. Mai 1662 ebenda) war ein englischer Alchemist. Backhouse wurde in Swallowfield Park, dem väterlichen Landsitz 5 Meilen südlich Reading, geboren. Er war einer der jüngeren Söhne des Parlamentsmitglieds, Kaufmanns und High Sheriff von Berkshire (1554–1626), studierte ab 1610 als Commoner am Christ Church College in Oxford, erwarb aber keinen Abschluss. Nach dem Antritt seines Erbes in Swallowfield Park befasste er sich mit Alchemie, Rosenkreuzer-Ideen und Astrologie. Diese Ideen gab er auch weiter zum Beispiel an Elias Ashmole, den er 1651 adoptierte und der später das Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum herausgab, eine Sammlung britischer alchemistischer Schriften. (de)
- William Backhouse (17 January 1593 – 30 May 1662) was an English philosopher, alchemist, astrologer, translator, and the esoteric mentor of Elias Ashmole. Born into the wealthy Backhouse family, Backhouse enjoyed an education at Oxford, and was likely exposed to alchemical teachings and the Rosicrucian manifestos of the 1610s. He married Anne Richards in 1637/8, and had three children. By 1651, he had become the mentor of Elias Ashmole, taking him as his "spiritual son and heir", the role for which his is best remembered. The following exchange of alchemical knowledge and manuscripts has been described as having an effect on Ashmole that "cannot be overstated". This relationship flourished in an intense exchange of alchemical documents and information, unaffected by Backhouse's poor health (en)
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