KUHLMAN (Quirinus), one of the visionaries of the 17th century, born at Breslau in Silesia in 1651. He gave great hopes by his early progress in his studies; but it was interrupted by a sickness, under which he laboured at 18 years of age. He was thought to be dead on the third day of his illness. But that day he had terrible visions. Two days after, he had more.
more. He had no longer any taste for profane learning; and would have no instructor but the Holy Ghost. At 19 he left his country and went to travel. He met in Holland with Bæhmen's works, of which he had never heard before. The reading of them was like oil thrown into the fire: he was surprised that Bæhmen should have prophesied of things, of which nobody but Kuhlman himself had the least knowledge. There was at that time in Holland one John Rothe, who undertook to prophecy. Our author wrote to him in the most humble manner, styling him a man of God, John III. and the son of Zacharias. He wandered a long time in England, France, and the East; and at last was burnt in Muscovy 1680, on account of some predictions that were actually seditious. There was a picture of him with so many titles, that the monarchs of the East never assumed more. The magnificent promises and vast designs of this fanatic may be seen in Morhof's Polyhistor. He wrote several works filled with fanaticism; the principal of which is intitled Prodromus quinquennii mirabilis, printed at Leyden in 1674.