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Angelus Silesius
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Angelus Silesius (ăn`jələs sĭlē`zhəs), pseud. of Johannes Scheffler (yōhän`əs shĕf`lər), 1624–77, German poet. He is best known for his pastoral lyric cycles Heilige Seelenlust (1657–68) and Cherubinischer Wandersmann (1674–75), which can be interpreted as Christian as well as pantheistic. Scheffler's mysticism strongly influenced 18th-century Pietism Pietism (pī`ətĭzəm), a movement in the Lutheran Church, most influential between the latter part of the 17th cent.
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