# Gerhard Dorn

16th-century alchemist and Paracelsian advocate whose mystical philosophy of inner transformation influenced Jung's depth psychology.

**Lived:** 1530–1584 (b. Mechelen, Belgium)
**Nationality:** Flemish
**Training:** Student of Adam von Bodenstein
**Affiliation:** Renaissance alchemy; Paracelsian philosophy; Basel and Frankfurt intellectual circles

## Key works

- *Clavis totius Philosophiae Chymisticae* (1567)
- *Chymisticum artificium naturae, theoricum et practicum* (1568)
- *Aurorae Thesaurusque Philosophorum* (1577)
- *De Naturae Luce Physica* (1583)
- *The Speculative Philosophy*