Many of the views which directed Leadbeater's understanding of the chakras were influenced by previous theosophist authors, in particular Johann Georg Gichtel, a disciple of Jakob Böhme, and his book Theosophia Practica ( 1696 ), in which Gitchtel directly refers to inner force centers, a concept reminiscent of the chakras.

Leade was hugely influenced by the theosophical writings of 16th century German Christian mystic Jakob Böhme, who also speaks of the Sophia in works such as The Way to Christ.

Jakob Böhme was very influential to a number of Christian mystics and religious leaders, including George Rapp and the Harmony Society.

Rapp became inspired by the philosophies of Jakob Böhme, Philipp Jakob Spener, Johann Heinrich Jung, and Emanuel Swedenborg, among others, and later wrote Thoughts on the Destiny of Man, published in German in 1824 and in English a year later, in which he outlined his ideas and philosophy.

Rapp was very influenced by the writings of Jakob Böhme, Philipp Jakob Spener, and Emanuel Swedenborg, among others.

* Jakob Böhme

* November 17 – Jakob Böhme, German mystic ( b. 1575 )

* Jakob Böhme of Görlitz ( 1575 – 1624 ), Christian mystic

** Jakob Böhme, German mystic ( d. 1624 )

Having separated from the established church, their theology was based in part on the writings of Jakob Böhme.

Amongst them were Christian mystic Jakob Böhme ( Behmen ); Johann Arndt, whose work, True Christianity, became widely known and appreciated ; Heinrich Müller, who described the font, the pulpit, the confessional and the altar as " the four dumb idols of the Lutheran Church "; theologian Johann Valentin Andrea, court chaplain of the landgrave of Hesse ; Schuppius, who sought to restore to the Bible its place in the pulpit ; and Theophilus Grossgebauer ( d. 1661 ) of Rostock, who from his pulpit and by his writings raised what he called " the alarm cry of a watchman in Sion.

* Jakob Böhme ( 1575 – 1624 ), mystic

He studied philosophy and theology at Tübingen ( 1722-1728 ), and was impressed by the works of Jakob Böhme, and also devoted attention to Leibniz and Wolff.

* Jakob Böhme

Jakob Böhme ( anonymous portrait )

The writings of Jakob Böhme ( 1575 – 1624 ) spread the doctrine of signatures-Böhme suggested that God marked objects with a sign, or " signature ", for their purpose.

Jakob Böhme ( 1575 – 1624 ), a shoemaker of Görlitz, Germany, claimed to have had a profound mystical vision as a young man, in which he saw the relationship between God and man signaled in all things.

He read the writings of Jakob Böhme.

Behmenism, also Behemenism and similar, is the English-language designation for a 17th Century European Christian movement based on the teachings of German mystic and theosopher Jakob Böhme ( 1575-1624 ).

Pordage was attracted to the ideas of Jakob Böhme, a Lutheran theosophist and Christian mystic.

* Jakob Böhme

The Behmenists religious movement began on continental Europe and took its ideas from the writings of Jakob Böhme ( Behmen being one of the adaptations of his name used in England ), a German mystic and theosopher who claimed Divine Revelation.

The only two persons who could be identified as the brothers were John ( who was an adviser of the Duchy and a lawyer ) and Jakob ( known as Magister, so probably a doctor ), sons of one Goćwina, who was a doctor in the court of Henry III the White.

Jakob Nielsen's heuristics are probably the most-used usability heuristics for user interface design.

Conrad Grebel was born, probably in Grüningen in the Canton of Zurich, about 1498 to Junker Jakob and Dorothea ( Fries ) Grebel, the second of six children.

Jacob Marcus ( also called R. Jakob ; born probably in 1749 in Schwaan, Germany, died 13 March 1819 in Norrköping, Sweden ) was a German-Swedish businessman and one of the pioneers in the history of Sweden's Jewish population, which began to take root around the turn of the 18th-19th centuries.

A Danish squadron of 8 ships under Jacob Brockenhuus, at anchor near Bornholm, saw a Swedish squadron of probably 8 ships, under Jakob Bagge, approaching, and sent only the 3 ships Hercules 81 ( flag ), Hector 38 and Hjort 46 toward it to show that they didn't want to fight.

Richard Baxter, who describes Pordage as chief of the ' Behmenists ', or English followers of Jakob Böhme, knew of him through a young man, probably Abiezer Coppe, who in 1649 was living under Pordage's roof in a ' family communion ', the members ' aspiring after the highest spiritual state ' through ' visible communion with angels '.

** April 1798 – November 1801 Jakob Emmanuel Feer ( b. 1754 – d. 1833 )

The disease has also been shown to result from use of Human Growth Hormone obtained from the pituitary glands of persons who died from Creutzfeldt – Jakob Disease, though the known incidence of this cause is ( as of April 2004 ) quite small.

Although Volvo was incorporated in 1915 as a subsidiary of AB SKF, a Swedish ball bearing manufacturer, the auto manufacturer considers itself officially founded on 14 April 1927, when the first car, the Volvo ÖV 4 series, affectionately known as " Jakob ", rolled out of the factory in Hisingen, Gothenburg.

* April 1 – Jakob Steiner, Swiss mathematician ( b. 1796 )

* April 9 – Jakob Heinrich Laspeyres, German lepidopterist ( d. 1809 )

* April 5 – Easter Sunday: Dutch admiral Jakob Roggeveen lands on what is now Easter Island.

Matthias Jakob Schleiden ( 5 April 1804 23 June 1881 ) was a German botanist and co-founder of the cell theory, along with Theodor Schwann and Rudolf Virchow.

She was married on 10 April 1958 to Marie Karl Josef Erdmann Jakob Edwin Lazarus Andreas Alois, Count Henckel of Donnersmarck, who was born on November 7, 1928.

Perizonius ( or Accinctus ) was the name of Jakob Voorbroek ( October 26, 1651 – April 6, 1715 ), a Dutch classical scholar, who was born at Appingedam in Groningen.

After years of illness, Balanchine died on April 30, 1983, in New York City of Creutzfeldt – Jakob disease, diagnosed only after his death.

Jakob Gijsbert " Jaap " de Hoop Scheffer (; born April 3, 1948 ) is a retired Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal ( CDA ).

Jakob ( or Jacob ) Heine ( April 16, 1800, Lauterbach, Black Forest, Germany – November 12, 1879, Cannstatt, Germany ) was a German orthopaedist.

Georg Jakob Steenke (* June 30, 1801 in Königsberg ; † April 22, 1884 in Elbing ) was a German architect and a königlicher Baurat ( royal construction councillor ) of the Kingdom of Prussia.

However, due to the German victory in the Franco-Prussian War, the Japanese government also relied on Prussia as a model for their army, and hired two German military advisors ( Major Jakob Meckel, replaced in 1888 by von Wildenbrück and Captain von Blankenbourg ) for the training of the Japanese General Staff from 1886 to April 1890: the Imperial Army General Staff Office, based on the Prussian Generalstab, was established directly under the Emperor in 1878 and was given broad powers for military planning and strategy.

Johann Jakob Kaup ( April 10, 1803-July 4, 1873 ) was a German naturalist.

Jakob Steiner ( 18 March 1796 – 1 April 1863 ) was a Swiss mathematician who worked primarily in geometry.

On 14 April 1939, Bonnet had a meeting with the Soviet Ambassador to France, Jakob Suritz, and asked " in a form to be determined " for the Soviet Union to provide military support for Poland and Romania if those nations were attacked by Germany.

Harket has three children with his ex-wife Camilla Malmquist Harket, to whom he was married between 11 February 1989 and 1998: Jakob Oscar Martinus Malmquist Harket ( b. 14 May 1989 ), Jonathan Henning Adler Malmquist Harket ( b. 30 December 1990 ), and Anna Katharina Tomine Malmquist Harket ( b. 14 April 1993, uses Tomine as her first name ).

Jakob Dylan and Three Legs performed concerts in mostly eastern and midwestern states in April and May 2010.

In April 1989 he upset world # 8 Jakob Hlasek, 6 – 4, 6 – 1, in Monte Carlo.

On April 19, 2012, following a private performance in New York City, Jakob Dylan announced that The Wallflowers will be releasing their sixth studio album in September 2012.

Jakob Segal ( April 17, 1911 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire – September 30, 1995 ) was a biology professor at Humboldt University in the former East Germany.

It is due to Father Jakob Rem, SJ, at the Colloquium Marianum in Ingolstadt, April 6, 1604.

Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer ( 10 December 1790, Brixen – 26 April 1861 ) was a Tyrolean traveller, journalist, politician and historian, best known for his controversial ( some even say racist ) theories concerning the racial origins of the Greeks, and for his travel writings.