1731–1793
Johann Joachim Christoph Bode
Translator, publisher and Freemason.
- Life
- 1731–1793
- Connection
- Member (code name "Aemilius")
Johann Joachim Christoph Bode was a musician, translator and publisher, known for his German translations of English and French literature. A prominent Freemason, he joined the Illuminati in the early 1780s under the code name Aemilius and remained active in its affairs after the Bavarian suppression. He died in Weimar in 1793.
References
- René Le Forestier, Les Illuminés de Bavière et la franc-maçonnerie allemande (Paris, 1914).
- Richard van Dülmen, Der Geheimbund der Illuminaten (Stuttgart, 1975).