8 SO K U H K U I-I 
KUH-COLLN. See Colleda, vol. 5 v. _ pronouncing woes againft tliofe who did not hearken- to 
KUH'DEAL, a town of Bengal: thirty-four miles weft him. The letters that paifed between tliefe two fanatics, 
of Ramgur. were printed under the title of Theojophicce EpjloLe Ld- 
KUH'DORF, a town of Saxony: four miles fouth of dcnfes. 
Weyda. In the year 1674, Kuhlman printed at Leyden, and 
KUHESCH'MALTZ, a town of Silefia, in the princi- dedicated to Rothe, his Prodromus Qtdnqutnnii Mirabilis , 
palitv of Neifle : lix miles fouth-fouth-weft of Grotkau. exhibiting the molt magnificent promifes, and vaft defigns 
KU'HESTEK, a feaport of Perfia, at the entrance of which our vifionary believed himfelf deitir.ed to fulfil. 
the gulf of Perfia : thirty-fix miles weft of Ormus. 
KUHI'SAR, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Caramania: 
fifteen miles north-weft of Akferai. 
KUHL'MAN (Quirinus), one of the vifionaries who 
made much noife in the feventeenth century, was born at 
Breflau in Silefia, in the year 1651. From the early pro- 
grefs which he made in learning, great hopes were enter¬ 
tained that he would prove an ornament to fcience; but 
thefe were dilappointed, in confequence of a diforder 
which attacked him at the age of eighteen, by which his 
intellects were deranged. On the third day of his illnefs 
he was thought to be dead; but then, according to the 
account which he afterwards gave of himfelf, he was only 
an a trance, and had a terrible vifion. He thought him¬ 
felf furrounded by all the devils in hell; and this at mid¬ 
day, when he was awake. This vifion was followed by 
another of God himfelf, furrounded by his faints, and Je- 
fus Chrift in the midft of them ; when he faw and felt 
things inexpreflible. Two days afterwards he had more 
vilions of the fame kind ; and, when he was cured of his 
diforder, his mind was found to be irrecoverably poffefted 
by delulion and fanaticifm. He perceived, indeed, as he 
imagined, a great change with regard to thefe vifions; 
but lie faw himfelf perpetually accompanied with a circle 
of light on his left hand. Sometimes he had fuch ecltatic 
diftraCtions, that they prevented him from feeing or hear¬ 
ing tliofe who were about him ; and he formed the plan 
of a vaft number of books, which were to exhibit com¬ 
pendious methods of learning every thing in the utmoft 
perfection and with very little labour. As he did not 
meet with that attention and credit in his native country 
which he thought to be due to his pretenfions, at nineteen 
years of age he fet out to vifit the univerfities. For po¬ 
lite learning he had no longer any tafte. When at Jena, 
he entertained a low' opinion of the public leCtures and 
deputations, and determined to have no other mailer than 
the Holy Ghoft. He publiftied a treatife on morality ; 
but, as lie received extraordinary illumination from day 
to day, he found the ftieets which the printer fent to him 
unworthy of him, lb much was his knowledge increafed 
during the courfe of the impreftion. In the year 1673, 
lie felt fo ftrong a defire to vifit Holland, that, notwith- 
ftanding the terrible war in which that country was then 
involved, he landed at Amfterdam in the month of Sep¬ 
tember, three days before the re-taking of the city of Na- 
erden. A few days afterwards he w>ent to Leyden, where 
be met with Jacob Bellmen's works, of which he had not 
before heard any mention. The reading of the labours 
of l'uch a congenial fanatic, like oil thrown into the fire, 
ferved to increafe the diforder of his mind. He was fur- 
prifed that Behmen fliould have prophefied of things, of 
which he thought no perfon but himfelf had the lealt 
knowledge. 
Meeting afterwards with the writings of Drabicius, his 
ruin w‘as completed, and he was carried to the utmoft 
extravagance of fanaticifm. Conceiving himfelf to be the 
perfon defignated by the myltical language in fome of 
the prophecies of that vifionary, he doubted not but that 
he fhould in a fliort time overthrow Antichrift and Baby¬ 
lon with his pen. To this purport he WTOte to John Rothe, 
the head of a party of fanatics in Holland, who took 
upon himfelf to prophefy that the glorious kingdom of 
Jefus Chrift was coming on, and that he was to be more 
than ftandard-bearer of this new world. At the fame time 
Kuhlman addrefted Rothe in the moft humble manner 
imaginable, ftyling him a man of God, and John III. fon 
cf Zachurius, defiring the affiftance of his knowledge, and 
The curious obfervers of the various forms which fana¬ 
ticifm aftunr.es, if they meet not with the original work, 
may fee a fufficient fpecimen of thefe in Morhof’s Pcly- 
hiftor, p. 357-362. This Prodromus was to be followed 
by two other volumes; in the firft of which he had a de- 
fign to introduce the ftudies and difcoveries made fince 
his firft vifion till the year 1674. The laft was to be a 
key to eternity, and ceveternity, and time. He communicated 
his deiign to father Kircher; and, after commending the 
books which that Jel'uit had publiftied, particularly the 
Ars combinatoria, five Ars magna Sciendi, he let hint 
know, that he had only iketched out what himfelf had a 
defign to carry much further. Kircher wrote him a civil 
anfwer, in which he evidently laughed at him, while he 
pretended to bow to his fuperior knowledge and illumi¬ 
nation : “ I frankly own myfelf,” faid he, “ incapable of 
your fublime and celeftial knowledge. What I have 
written, I have written after an human manner, that is, 
by knowledge gained by itudy and labour, not divinely 
infpired and infufed, which I think is not to be obtained 
pure among men. I do not doubt but that you, by means 
of the incomparable and vaft extent of your genius, will 
produce difcoveries much greater and more admirable 
than my trifles.” And in a fecond letter he fays, “ You 
promife great and incredible things, which, as they far 
tranfcend all human capacity, fo I affirm boldly that they 
have never been attempted or even thought of by any 
perfon hitherto; and, therefore, I cannot but fufpecr, 
that you have obtained by the gift of God fuch a know¬ 
ledge as the fcifiptures afcribe to Adam and Solomon. 
I mean an Adamic and Solomonic, in fliort, an infufed, 
knowledge, known to no mortal but yourfelf, and inex¬ 
plicable by any other.” All this Kuhlman took for feri- 
ous compliment, without perceiving that the Jefuit ridi¬ 
culed him ; and he took care to publifh father Kircher’s 
anfwers, making ufe of capital letters in thofe paffages in 
which he thought himfelf praifed. This, indeed, was not 
a fingular inftance of his vanity ; for there was no com¬ 
pliment written to him, either by thofe to w’hom he had 
lent copies of his works, or by others, which he did not 
prefix to his Prodromus. But with his ridicule father 
Kircher intermingled fome ferious advice, which could 
not be well relilhed by our fanatic. He earneftly recom¬ 
mended it to him, not to make a difcovery to any perfon. 
of the profound infufed knowledge which he pofl'efled, 
that he might not expofe himfelf to the feoffs and con¬ 
tempt of that farcaftic age; and, in reply to Kuhlman’s 
intimation of his defire to communicate to the pope, 
through the hands of Kircher, his great fecrets for the 
good of Chriftianity, the latter informed him of the cau¬ 
tion and circumfpeCticn neceflary for conducting matters 
at Rome, and that his great work (dedicated to the pope) 
would be applauded and admired, provided that he left 
nothing in it which might offend the cenfors of books, 
and took care not tc afcribe to himfelf an infpired know¬ 
ledge. It is impoflible not to be ltruck with the mixture 
of knavery and fanaticifm dilplayed by Kuhlman on this 
occafion. For, about the fame time that he was willing 
to write refpeCtfuily to the pope for the good of Chriftia¬ 
nity, he wrote to ethers letters full of hopes of the de- 
ftruCtion of the papacy. It is not certain when Kuhlman 
left Holland; but we are informed that he wandered 
about a long time in England, France, Turkey, the Holy 
Land, and other parts of Afia ; and that at laft he was 
burnt in Mufcovy in 1689, for uttering fome predictions 
of a feditious nature. This fanatic was not one of thofe 
pretendedly-inipired men, who value themfelves upon 
their 
