It is also believed by the Rosicrucian organization AMORC, that Bacon would have influenced a settlement of mystics in North America, stating that his work " The New Atlantis " inspired a colony of Rosicrucians led by Johannes Kelpius, to journey across the Atlantic Ocean in a chartered vessel called Sarah Mariah, and move on to Pennsylvania in late XVII Century.

Johannes Kelpius and his fellows moved to Wissahickon Creek, in Pennsylvania, and became known as " Hermits of Mystics of the Wissahickon " or simply " Monks of the Wissahickon ".

A number of religious utopian societies from Europe came to the United States from the 18th century throughout the 19th century, including the Society of the Woman in the Wilderness ( led by Johannes Kelpius ), the Ephrata Cloister, and the Harmony Society, among others.

* Johannes Kelpius

In 1694, Johannes Kelpius brought a group of German Pietists to the banks of the Wissahickon Creek.

AMORC maintains that the next Rosicrucian expedition came in the chartered vessel Sarah Maria during the early months of 1694 under the leadership of Grand Master Johannes Kelpius and they established a colony in what is now Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.

Johannes Kelpius of the Jacob Boehme Lodge in Germany led the German Pietists to America and these Rosicrucian immigrants and their descendants established a commune in 1732 at Ephrata, Pennsylvania known as the Ephrata Society under the leadership of Johann Conrad Beissel and Peter Miller ( who at the behest of Congress translated the Declaration of Independence into seven languages ); the buildings still exist today as part of a historical park known as Ephrata Cloisters.

It may have also been named by the hermit Johannes Kelpius, leader of a millennial monastic-type group that lived along the Wissahickon, though he refers to as area as " Rocks-burrow " in a letter dated May 25, 1706.

In 1694, Johannes Kelpius brought a group of German Pietists to the banks of the Wissahickon Creek in southeastern Pennsylvania.

Böhme's views greatly influenced many anti-authoritarian and Christian mystical movements, such as the Religious Society of Friends, the Philadelphians, the Gichtelians, the Society of the Woman in the Wilderness ( led by Johannes Kelpius ), the Ephrata Cloister, the Harmony Society, Martinism, and Christian theosophy.

In later years, although no longer officially a functioning group, many of the Philadelphian Society's views and writings, particularly those by Jane Leade, remained influential among certain groups of Behmenists, Pietists, Radical Pietists, Christian mystics, and Esoteric Christians, such as the Society of the Woman in the Wilderness ( led by Johannes Kelpius ), the Ephrata Cloister, and the Harmony Society, among others.

Beissel had arrived in America with the intention of joining the commune of hermits founded by Johannes Kelpius, but Kelpius had died in 1708.

** Johannes Kelpius, mystic and musician ( born 1673 )

At the time of his birth Grothendieck's mother was married to Johannes Raddatz, a German journalist, and his birthname was initially recorded as Alexander Raddatz.

* 1558 – Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer ( b. 1485 )

In 1919 Swiss painter Johannes Itten, German-American painter Lyonel Feininger, and German sculptor Gerhard Marcks, along with Gropius, comprised the faculty of the Bauhaus.

The design came from a painting by German artist Johannes M. Dietz.

Melanchthon and Johannes Brenz, with some other German Lutherans, actually started in 1552 on the journey to Trent.

* 1571 – Johannes Kepler, German astronomer ( d. 1630 )

* 1964 – Johannes B. Kerner, German TV presenter

* 1516 – Johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer ( b. 1462 )

In the German school of fencing, Johannes Liechtenauer ( Ms. 3227a ) and his successors ( specifically Andres Lignizer in Cod.

* 1622 – Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher ( d. 1665 )

1410 ), the poems of Oswald von Wolkenstein and Johannes von Tepl, the German versions of Pontus and Sidonia, and arguably the works of Hans Folz and Sebastian Brant ( Ship of Fools, 1494 ), among others.

Copernicus's new perspective-along with the accurate observations of Tycho Brahe-was used by German astronomer Johannes Kepler ( 1571 – 1630 ) to formulate laws regarding planetary motions that are still accepted today.

Several twentieth-century German writers, including Peter Bender, Johannes Lang, Karl Neupert, and Fritz Braun, published works advocating the hollow Earth hypothesis, or Hohlweltlehre.

Johannes Kepler (; December 27, 1571 – November 15, 1630 ) was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer.

Johannes Kepler was born on December 27, 1571, at the Free Imperial City of Weil der Stadt ( now part of the Stuttgart Region in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, 30 km west of Stuttgart's center ).

Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg ( ; 1398 – February 3, 1468 ) was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe.

Johannes Rau (; 16 January 193127 January 2006 ) was a German politician of the SPD.

* 1665 – Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher ( b. 1622 )

* 1582 – Johannes Schultz, German composer ( d. 1653 )

* 1883 – Johannes Blaskowitz, German general ( d. 1948 )

* 1485 – Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer ( d. 1558 )

* 1862 – Walter Johannes Damrosch, German composer ( d. 1950 )

* 1901 – Johannes Schmidt, German linguist ( b. 1843 )

* 1989 – Johannes Halbig, German musician ( Killerpilze )

* 1983 – Johannes Herber, German basketball player

The term obscurantism derives from the title of the 16th-century satire Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum ( Letters of Obscure Men ), based upon the intellectual dispute between the German humanist Johann Reuchlin and Dominican monks, such as Johannes Pfefferkorn, about whether or not all Jewish books should be burned as un-Christian.

Lorenzo was an accomplished musician and brought composers and singers to Florence, including Alexander Agricola, Johannes Ghiselin, and Heinrich Isaac.

Among his correspondents are the musician and choirmaster of Antwerp, Jacobus Barbirianus ( Barbireau ), Alexander Hegius, rector of the Latin school at Deventer ( of Erasmian fame ), and the humanist scholar and later famed student of Hebrew, Johannes Reuchlin.

His name fell into neglect during the 19th century, with Robert Schumann notoriously opining that " as a creative musician he remained very far behind his father "; in contrast, Johannes Brahms held him in high regard and edited some of his music.

* Johannes Bernardus van Bree ( 1801-1857 ), Dutch composer, musician

As a musician, he was a close friend and confidante of Johannes Brahms, a leading patron of the Viennese musical scene, and one of the first to attempt a scientific analysis of musicality.

The contemporary reputation of Busnois was immense ; he was probably the best-known musician in Europe between the time of Guillaume Dufay and Johannes Ockeghem.

Jan Brożek ( Ioannes Broscius, Joannes Broscius or Johannes Broscius ; 1 November 1585 – 21 November 1652 ) was a Polish polymath: a mathematician, astronomer, physician, poet, writer, musician and rector of the Kraków Academy.

Wannes Van de Velde ( 29 April 1937 – 10 November 2008 ), born Willy Cecile Johannes Van de Velde, in Antwerp, was a Flemish singer, musician, poet and artist.

* Johannes Praetorius ( musician ) ( 1595 – 1660 ), organist and composer ; son of Hieronymus and brother of Jacob

Johannes Bergmark, mentioned above, works as a musician and composer, has recorded a number of CDs and performed on festivals internationally.