Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers was a polyglot; among the
languages he had studied were English, French, Latin, Greek,
Hebrew, Gaelic and Coptic, though he had a greater command of some
languages than of others. His translations of such books as The
Book of Abramelin (14thC.), Christian Knorr von Rosenroth's The
Kabbalah Unveiled (1684), Key of Solomon, The Lesser Key of Solomon
are his most well known translations. Christian Knorr von Rosenroth
(July 15/16, 1636 - May 4, 1689) was a German Hebraist born at
Alt-Raudten, in Silesia. After having completed his studies in the
universities of Wittenberg and Leipzig, he traveled through
Holland, France, and England. On his return he devoted himself to
the study of Oriental languages, especially Hebrew, the rudiments
of which he had acquired while abroad. Later he became a diligent
student of the Kabbalah, in which he believed to find proofs of the
doctrines of Christianity. In his opinion the Adam Kadmon of the
cabalists is Jesus, and the three highest sefirot represent the
Trinity. Rosenroth intended to make a Latin translation of the
Zohar and the Ti unim, and he published as preliminary studies the
first two volumes of his Kabbala Denudata, sive Doctrina Hebr orum
Transcendentalis et Metaphysica Atque Theologia (Sulzbach,
1677-78). They contain a cabalistic nomenclature, the Idra Rabbah
and Idra Zu a and the Sifra di- eni'uta, cabalistic essays of
Naphtali Herz ben Jacob Elhanan.
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