# Jakob Böhme — Representative Men character guide

> Jakob Böhme in Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Behmen, Jacob Behmen

**First appearance:** 0003-iii-swedenborg-or-the-mystic

## Who they are

German mystic, referenced as a precursor to Swedenborg.

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