Biography
Maier was natural within Hindsburg, Holstein, in 1568. He attained withinside 1597 a sheepskin of doctor in philosophy & medicine, exerted a medical profession inside Rostock and Prague & became a medico & regal counsellor of Rudolf II. A interest of a emperor for the occult was the reason of his high esteem for Maier. Maier commented Hermes Trismegistus & dedicated by owning a emperor to the search of the secrets of nature and severity. When Rudolf's demise, inside 1612, Maier went servicing more German princes & particularly a prince of Nassau, low protector of alchemy. Within 1620 he moved to Magdeburg within which he died in 1622 at the age of 54, allowing a noteworthy quantity of unpublished works.

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