Jacob Beme (157524) was a visionary, one of the greatest European Christian mystics, a recognized figure in German philosophy. In fact, with Beme began the whole of German philosophy - he became a harbinger of idealism. Boehme's characteristic features of visionary and charismatic leadership (with great modesty and spiritual softness) combined with his religious heterodoxism caused persecution of him by the church, but at the same time attracted to him in the last years of his life many educated people, in particular. h. prominent supporters who gave him the honorary title Philosophus Teutonicus. His teaching finds deep resonance in the German religious philosophy of kon. 18 start. 19 in. (Pietists, Herder, Goethe, Baader, Fr.) Schlegel et al . romance, Hegel, Schelling).