Balthasar Walther
<p><b >Balthasar Walther</b> (1558 – c. 1631) was a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesia" title="Silesia" >Silesian</a> physician and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Kabbalist" title="Christian Kabbalist" class="mw-redirect" >Christian Kabbalist</a> of German ethnicity. Born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liegnitz" title="Liegnitz" class="mw-redirect" >Liegnitz</a> in modern Poland, Walther was a significant influence on the thought of the German<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophy" title="Theosophy" >theosopher</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_B%C3%B6hme" title="Jakob Böhme" >Jakob Böhme</a>. As an itinerant <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracelsian" title="Paracelsian" class="mw-redirect" >Paracelsian</a> enthusiast, Walther was active throughout the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire" title="Holy Roman Empire" >Holy Roman Empire</a>, in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland" title="Poland" >Poland</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transylvania" title="Transylvania" >Transylvania</a> and elsewhere. He died in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris" title="Paris" >Paris</a> sometime before December 1631.</p>