King of Sweden and Poland, who appointed him royal 

 Councillor. He rose rapidly to great eminence and thereby 

 excited the envy and hatred of the Swedish Fieldmarshal 

 Pontus de la Gardie, and after publication of a history of 

 the Kingdom of Sweden that displeased those in power, the 

 army officer accused him of treason and secured a judgment 

 of death against him; by the intercession of his brother 

 Matthias, however, the penalty was reduced to imprisonment 

 for ten years and subsequent banishment from Sweden. The 

 miserable decade ended in 1595, Typot then went to Germany 

 where his works "De fortuna" and "De fato," attracted the 

 attention of Rudolph who appointed him royal historian at 

 a large salary. In Sweden Typot had been sentenced to be 

 beheaded, and Rudolph with a rare humor always called him 

 "the headless." 



Loew and Typot had become warm friends and it was 

 merely a trifling coincidence that the historian, accompanied 

 by Dr. Michael Maier, was announced just as the Rabbi 

 awoke from his reveries; the two were cordially received, 

 their snow-covered garments were laid aside, and their host 

 ordered hot mulled wine to be prepared for their refreshment. 

 Dr. Maier, who had Hebrew ancestors on his mother's side, 

 was no stranger at the Lion House; he and the Rabbi were 

 wont to discuss cosmology, pneumatology and theosophy 

 sometimes far into the small hours of the night. The learned 

 Doctor was a plain featured man, having high cheek bones, 

 a long nose, square jaws, a chin beard and mustache taper- 

 ing at each end ; his rotund body with square shoulders was 

 supported by slender legs that seemed inadequate for the 

 purpose. He affected fashionable and luxurious garments 

 and habitually wore a wide linen collar shaped like a yoke; 

 from his neck was suspended a decoration. He called on 

 Loew with Typotius to have a triangular conference about 



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