Jacob Boehme was born in 1575.
Walking one day in the fields, when he was twenty-five years old, the mystery of creation was suddenly opened to him, of which he later said that "in one quarter of an hour I saw and knew more than if I had been many year.
From an early age he seems to have been devoted to the study of the Bible as well as to have had a growing, inner, sense of the reality of God.
He received little if any formal education and was apprenticed to a shoemaker at Goerlitz in Saxony.
Jacob Boehme was born in 1575