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'''Johann Adam Weishaupt''' (6 February 1748 – 18 November 1830<ref name="ADB Vol. 41">''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' [http://mdz10.bib-bvb.de/~db/bsb00008399/images/index.html?seite=541 Vol. 41, p. 539].</ref><ref name="Engel 1906">Engel, Leopold. ''Geschichte des Illuminaten-ordens''. Berlin: H. Bermühler Verlag, 1906.</ref><ref name="van Dülmen 1975">Dülmen, Richard van. ''Der Geheimbund der Illuminaten''. Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 1975.</ref><ref name="Stauffer 1918">Stauffer, Vernon. ''New England and the Bavarian Illuminati''. Columbia University, 1918.</ref>) was a [[German philosopher]] (Western Philosophy), jurist, university professor and founder of the [[Order of the Illuminati]], a secret society with origins in [[Bavaria]]. He used the pseudonym ''Spartacus'' during the time of his subversive activities.

==Life==
===Early life===
Adam Weishaupt was born in 1748 in Ingolstadt<ref name="ADB Vol. 41"/><ref name="books.google.com">Engel [http://books.google.com/books?id=v72fDHzuMf0C&pg=PR6#PPA22,M1 22].</ref> in the Electorate of [[Bavaria]]. Weishaupt’s father Johann Georg Weishaupt (1717–1753) died<ref name="books.google.com"/> when Adam was five years old. After his father’s death he came under the tutelage of his godfather Johann Adam Freiherr von Ickstatt<ref>''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' [http://mdz10.bib-bvb.de/~db/bsb00008371/images/index.html?seite=742 Vol. 13, pp. 740–741].</ref> who, like his father, was a professor of law at the University of Ingolstadt.<ref>Freninger, Franz Xaver, ed. ''Das Matrikelbuch der Universitaet Ingolstadt-Landshut-München''. München: A. Eichleiter, 1872. 31.</ref> Ickstatt was a proponent of the philosophy of [[Christian Wolff (philosopher)|Christian Wolff]] and of the [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]],<ref>Hartmann, Peter Claus. ''Bayerns Weg in die Gegenwart''. Regensburg: Pustet, 1989. 262. Also, Bauerreiss, Romuald. ''Kirchengeschichte Bayerns''. Vol. 7. St. Ottilien: EOS Verlag, 1970. 405.</ref> and he influenced the young Weishaupt with his [[rationalism]]. Weishaupt began his formal education at age seven<ref name="ref name="ADB Vol. 41"/> at a [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] school. He later enrolled at the University of Ingolstadt and graduated in 1768<ref>Freninger 47.</ref> at age 20 with a [[Juris Doctor|doctorate of law]].<ref>Engel [http://books.google.com/books?id=v72fDHzuMf0C&pg=PR6#PPA25,M1 25–28].</ref> In 1772<ref>Freninger 32.</ref> he became a professor of law. The following year he married Afra Sausenhofer<ref>Engel [http://books.google.com/books?id=v72fDHzuMf0C&pg=PR6#PPA31,M1 31].</ref> of [[Eichstätt]].

After Pope Clement XIV’s suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1773, Weishaupt became a professor of canon law,<ref>Engel [http://books.google.com/books?id=v72fDHzuMf0C&pg=PR6#PPA33,M1 33]. Also, ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' [http://mdz10.bib-bvb.de/~db/bsb00008399/images/index.html?seite=542 Vol. 41, p. 540].</ref> a position that was held exclusively by the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuits]] until that time. In 1775, Weishaupt was introduced<ref>Engel [http://books.google.com/books?id=v72fDHzuMf0C&pg=PR6#PPA61,M1 61–62].</ref> to the [[Empiricism|empirical]] philosophy of Johann Georg Heinrich Feder<ref>''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' [http://mdz10.bib-bvb.de/~db/bsb00008364/images/index.html?seite=597 Vol. 6, pp. 595–597].</ref> of the Georg-August University of Göttingen. Both Feder and Weishaupt would later become opponents of [[Immanuel Kant|Kantian]] [[idealism]].<ref>Beiser, Frederick C. ''The Fate of Reason''. Harvard University Press, 1987. [http://books.google.com/books?id=5ihJn9EKCl4C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPA186,M1 186–88].</ref>

===Founder of the Illuminati===
: ''At a time, however, when there was no end of making game of and abusing secret societies, I planned to make use of this human foible for a real and worthy goal, for the benefit of people. I wished to do what the heads of the ecclesiastical and secular authorities ought to have done by virtue of their offices [...]''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schneider |first1=Heinrich |authorlink1= |title=Quest for Mysteries: The Masonic Background for Literature in 18th Century |url= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |format= |accessdate= |type= |edition= |series= |date= |year=2005 |month= |origyear=1947 |publisher=Kessinger Publishing |location= |language= |isbn=1419182145 |oclc= |doi= |id= |page=24 n.49 |pages= |at= |chapter= |chapterurl= |quote=}}</ref>

On 1 May 1776, Weishaupt formed the "Order of Perfectibilists". He adopted the name of "Brother [[Spartacus]]" within the order. Though the Order was not [[egalitarian]] or democratic, its mission was the abolition of all monarchical governments and state religions in Europe and its colonies. Weishaupt wrote:

: ''"The ends justified the means."''

The actual character of the society was an elaborate network of spies and counter-spies. Each isolated cell of initiates reported to a superior, whom they did not know, a party structure that was effectively adopted by some later groups. Weishaupt himself only became a Freemason in 1777 in the lodge "Zur Behutsamkeit" in Munich and bore the religious name "Sanchoniaton" here. However, he changed this name to 'Cocyrus' after the exposure of the Illuminati order in Bavaria and he also used the name 'Scipio Aemilianus' alternatively. Together with Franz Xaver von Zwack he began to work towards putting his system of the Illuminati Order on a Masonic basis. Through the Marchese di Constantin Costanzo, they obtained a patent from the Berlin Grand Lodge Royal York for the Munich Lodge "Theodor zum guten Rat", then declared it independent and transferred it to the Illuminati order.

His project of “illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason, which will dispel the clouds of superstition and of prejudice” was an unwelcome reform. Soon however he had developed [[gnostic]] mysteries of his own, with the goal of “perfecting human” nature through re-education to achieve a communal state with nature, freed of government and organized religion. He began working towards incorporating his system of Illuminism with that of Freemasonry. He wrote:

: ''“I did not bring [[Deism]] into Bavaria more than into Rome. I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring [[Protestant]] States. I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.”''

Weishaupt’s radical rationalism and vocabulary was not likely to succeed. Writings that were intercepted in 1784 were interpreted as seditious, and the Society was banned by the government of [[Karl Theodor]], Elector of Bavaria, in 1784. After the Society was banned by the Bavarian government in 1784, Weishaupt lost his position at the University of Ingolstadt: he was suspended in February 1785 after repeatedly demanding that the university library include Pierre Bayle's ''Dictionnaire historique et critique'' and the works by Richard Simon in their inventory. He first fled to Regensburg, where the Masonic lodge "Zu den drei Schlüsseln" had existed since 1767, which was only dissolved in 1795. At that time, the Protestant Free Imperial City of Regensburg, which had taken in many Protestants who had fled from Bavaria and [[Austria]] in the course of the 18th century and where [[Catholics]] had no civil rights, was considered a haven of religious freedom, tolerance and science.

===Activities in exile===

Duke Ernst II (Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg), since 1783 a member of the Illuminati under the religious name 'Quintus Severus' or 'Timoleon', granted him asylum in Gotha, where Weishaupt lived from 1787 on with the title and pension of a court councilor (''Hofrat''). He wrote a series of works on illuminism, including ''A Complete History of the Persecutions of the Illuminati in Bavaria'' (1785), ''A Picture of Illuminism'' (1786), ''An Apology for the Illuminati'' (1786), and ''An Improved System of Illuminism'' (1787).

==Death==
Adam Weishaupt died in Gotha on 18 November 1830.<ref name="ADB Vol. 41"/><ref name="Engel 1906"/><ref name="van Dülmen 1975"/><ref name="Stauffer 1918"/> He was survived by his second wife, Anna Maria (née Sausenhofer), and his children Nanette, Charlotte, Ernst, [[Karl von Weishaupt|Karl]], [[Eduard von Weishaupt|Eduard]], and Alfred.<ref name="Engel 1906"/> Weishaupt was buried next to his son Wilhelm who preceded him in death in 1802.
==Works==
===On the Illuminati===
* (1786) ''Apologie der Illuminaten''.
* (1786) ''Vollständige Geschichte der Verfolgung der Illuminaten in Bayern''.
* (1786) ''Schilderung der Illuminaten''.
* (1787) ''Einleitung zu meiner Apologie''.
* (1787) ''Einige Originalschriften des Illuminatenordens''...
* (1787) ''Nachtrage von weitern Originalschriften''... [http://books.google.com/books?id=Y7cqAAAAMAAJ Google Books]
* (1787) ''Kurze Rechtfertigung meiner Absichten''.
* (1787) ''Nachtrag zur Rechtfertigung meiner Absichten''.
* (1787) ''Apologie des Mißvergnügens und des Übels''.
* (1787) ''Das Verbesserte System der Illuminaten''.
* (1788) ''Der ächte Illuminat, oder die wahren, unverbesserten Rituale der Illuminaten''.
* (1795) ''Pythagoras, oder Betrachtungen über die geheime Welt- und Regierungskunst''.

===Philosophical works===
* (1775) ''De Lapsu Academiarum Commentatio Politica''.
* (1786) ''Über die Schrecken des Todes – eine philosophische Rede''.
** {{fr icon}} ''Discours Philosophique sur les Frayeurs de la Mort'' (1788). [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k107838n Gallica]
* (1786) ''Über Materialismus und Idealismus''. [http://hal9000.cisi.unito.it/wf/BIBLIOTECH/Umanistica/Biblioteca2/Libri-anti1/Miscellane/imagemar2297.pdf Torino]
* (1788) ''Geschichte der Vervollkommnung des menschlichen Geschlechts''.
* (1788) ''Über die Gründe und Gewißheit der Menschlichen Erkenntniß''.
* (1788) ''Über die Kantischen Anschauungen und Erscheinungen''.
* (1788) ''Zweifel über die Kantischen Begriffe von Zeit und Raum''.
* (1793) ''Über Wahrheit und sittliche Vollkommenheit''.
* (1794) ''Über die Lehre von den Gründen und Ursachen aller Dinge''.
* (1794) ''Über die Selbsterkenntnis, ihre Hindernisse und Vorteile''.
* (1797) ''Über die Zwecke oder Finalursachen''.
* (1802) ''Über die Hindernisse der baierischen Industrie und Bevölkerung''.
* (1804) ''Die Leuchte des Diogenes''.
** {{en icon}} ''Diogenes Lamp'' (Tr. Amelia Gill) introduced by Sir Mark Bruback chosen by the [[Freemasonry|Masonic Book Club]] to be its published work for 2008. (Ed. Andrew Swanlund).
* (1817) ''Über die Staats-Ausgaben und Auflagen''. [http://books.google.com/books?id=lnxRAAAAMAAJ Google Books]
* (1818) ''Über das Besteuerungs-System''.

==External links==

* {{de icon}} Biography in ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' [http://mdz10.bib-bvb.de/~db/bsb00008399/images/index.html?seite=541 Vol. 41, pp. 539–550] by Daniel Jacoby.
*[http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/texts/illuminati.html A Bavarian Illuminati primer] by Trevor W. McKeown.
*[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07661b.htm Illuminati] entry in The Catholic Encyclopedia, hosted by New Advent.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20210321153602/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/profile-adam-weishaupt-illuminati-secret-society Meet the Man Who Started the Illuminati]

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