Johann Grasshoff
German alchemist
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Johann Grasshoff (or Grasshof, Grasse)[1][2][3] (c.1560 – 1623) was a Pomeranian jurist, and alchemical writer. He is recorded also as a medical advisor to Ernest of Bavaria, a Syndic, and an Episcopal counselor.
His writings include the Aperta Arca arcani artificiosissimi (1617).[4] and a Cabala Chymica (1658).[5]
The compilation of the 1625 Dyas chymica tripartita is also attributed to him;[6] it includes The Golden Age Restored[7] of Henricus Madathanus, The Book of Lambspring,[8] of Nicolas Barnaud, and the Book of Alze.[9]