Initial Membership List of the Bavarian Illuminati*

Compiled by Eric Samuelson, J.D. janeric@concentric.net

Baader, Professor Babo, Professor Badorifer ("Livius") Baierhamer ("Zoroaster" or "Confucius") Bahrdt, Clergyman Bajerhamer Balderbusch, F. H. Bart, Professor Baron Bassus-in-Sandersdorf ("Hannibal") Berger, Counsellor ("Cornelius Scipio") Bode, F. H. ("Amelius") Johann J. C. Bode Braun, Canon Burzes, Priest Busche, F. H. ("Bayrd") Baron de Busch Constanza, Marquis de ("Diomedes") Cossandey, Professor Dachsel Danzer, Canon Dietrich (Mayor of Strasbourg) Dilling, Counsellor Dillis, Abbe Drexi, Librarian Adrien Duport Ecker, Count ("Saladin") Fischer, Magistrate Frauenberger, Baron Gaspar, Merchant ("Tycho Brahe") Saint Germain Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) ("Abaris") Grunberger, Professor Gunsheim, Count Hertel, Canon ("Marius") Hochinaer Hoffstetter, Surveyor of Roads Kaitner, Lieutenant Kapfinger ("Thales") Knigge, Adolph Franz Friedrich Ludwid Baron Von ("Philo") Kreitmaier, Prince Kundi, Professor Kundler, Professor Lange ("Tamerlane") Leiberhauer, Priest Losi ("Ludovicus Bavarus") Lowling, Professor Massenhausen, Count Hertel Poltroon Mandl ("Ajax") (treasurer) Mauvillon, Colonel Meggenhoff, Paymaster ("Sulla") Baron Mengenhofen ("Sylla")

Michel ("Timon") Mirabeau, Count Gabriel Riqueti (1749-1791) ("Cornelius Scipio") Morausky, Count Morgellan, Count Christop Friedrich Nicholai (1733-1811) ("Lucian") (Bookseller) Orleans, Duke. Ow, Major Tallyrand de Perigord (Abbe) Johann Heinrich ("Henry") Pestalozzi (1746-1827) ("Alfred") Pfelt ("Cicero") Pfruntz, Priest Renner, Professor Rothschild Sauer ("Attila") Savioli, Count ("Brutus") Baron von Schroeckenstein ("Mahomed") Seefeld, Count Socher, School Inspector ("Hermes Trismegistus") Steger ("Shaftesbury") Strobi, Bookseller Torring, Count Tropponero, Zuschwartz ("Coriolanus") Utschneider, Professor Vachency, Councellor Adam Weishaupt, Professor ("Spartacus") Werner, Counsellor Westenrieder, Professor ("Pythagoras") Wortz, Apothecary Kirchenrat Karl Kasimir Wundt (1744-1784) ("Raphael") (the grandfather of Wilhelm Wundt) Zwack, Herr von (Lawyer) ("Cato") * The above list is primarily from John Robison, A.M. (p. 116-118) (1967 Western Islands Reprint).

Code names for cities included Munich ("Athens"), Ingoldstat ("Ephesus" or "Eleusis"), Heidelberg ("Utica"), Bavaria ("Achaia"), Suabia ("Pannonia"), and Vienna ("Rome"). Locations of Illuminati Lodges: Aix-la-Chappelle (2), Alsace (many), America (several), Ancona, Anspach, Austria (14), Bartschied, Bonn (4), Brunswick, Buchenwerter, Calbe, Carisruhe, Cassel, Cologne, Courland, (many), Cousel, Deuxponts, Dresden (4), Dusseldorff, Echstadt, England (8), Florence, France, Frankendahl, Frankfort, Hahrenberg, Holland (many), Hanover, Heidelberg, Hesse (many), Ingolstadt, Livonia (many), Magdenburgh, Mannheim, Mentz (2), Monpeliard, Munich, Naples, Neuwied (2), Osnabruck, Poland (many), Rome, Upper Saxony (several), Scotland (2), Spire, Strasburgh (5), Stutgard (3), Switzerland (many), Treves (2), Turin, Vienna (4), Warsaw (2), Weimar, Westphalia (several) and Worms. Robison was not able to find the identities of Minos, Euriphon, Celsius, Mahomet, Hercules, Socrates, Philippo Strozzi, Euclides, and certain others whom he said "have been uncommonly active in carrying forward the great cause. He gave "the chief publications" that gave regular accounts of the whole (besides the original writings):

1. Grosse Absicht des liluminaten Ordens. 2. Nachirages (3.) an denselben. 3. Weishaupt's improved System. 4. System des Ilium. Ordens aus dem original~Schriften gezogen.

References to Illuminati and Secret Societies:

Rabbi Marvin S. Antelman, Vol. I, To Eliminate the Opiate (1974). James H. Billington, Fire In The Minds of Men (1980). David Bjelajac, Washington Allston, Secret Societies and the Alchemy of AngloAmerican Painting (1997). Samuel L. Blumenfeld, Is Public Education Necessary? (1981). William Bramley, The Gods of Eden (1990). William Guy Carr, Pawns In The Game (1958); Satan, Prince of This World (1997). J.R. Church, Guardians Of The Grail (1989). Henry Wilson Coil, Coil's Masonic Encyclopedia (1961). Conspiracy! Vol. 6 No. 12 (December 1996). Arkon Daraul, A History of Secret Societies (1990). Paul H. Emden, Money Powers of Europe (1938). H.C. Engelbrecht, Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1968). A. Ralph Epperson, The Unseen Hand (1985). Myron Fagan, The Illuminati (1967) (Transcript). Elliott Germain, Western Man: Alpha to Omega (1997); Transfer of Power: the War of 1861 (1999). Robert Henry Goldsborough, Lines of Credit: Ropes of Bondage (1989). Des Griffin, Fourth Reich of the Rich (1989); Descent Into Slavery? (1980). Charles William Heckethorn, Vol. I, The Secret Societies of All Ages and Countries (1897). Michael Howard, The Occult Conspiracy (1989). George Humphrey, Common Sense: An Introduction to The Dangers of the New World Order (1998). R.M. Johnston, Vol. II, The Napoleonic Empire in Southern Italy and the Rise of the Secret Societies (1973). Gary Kah, En Route to Global Occupation (1991); The Demonic Roots To Globalism. Stephen Knight, The Brotherhood (Dorset Press 1986). Illiya Langlois, Inside The New American Underground (1995). John Heron Lepper, Famous Secret Societies (1971). C.S. Lewis, "The Inner Ring," The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (1980). Eustace Mullins, The Curse of Canaan (1987). John Cosen Ogden, A View of the New England Illuminati (1799); MicroPrint #36009. Edmond Paris, The Secret History of the Jesuits (1975). Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871). Robert L. Preston, Wake-Up America (1972). Lady Queenborough, Vols. I & II, Occult Theocracy (1933). Captain A.H.M. Ramsay, The Nameless War. J.M. Roberts, The Mythology of the Secret Societies (1972).

Marie Roberts, British Poets and Secret Societies (1986). James Robinson, Proofs of A Conspiracy (4th Ed. 1798) (Western Islands Reprint, 1967). Pat Robertson, The New World Order (1991). Fritz Springmeir, The Top 13 Illuminati Bloodlines (1995). Vernon Stauffer, New England and the Bavarian Illuminati (1918). Albert C. Stevens, The Cyclopedia of Fraternities (1907). William T. Still, New World Order: The Ancient Plan of Secret Societies (1990). Antony C. Sutton, America's Secret Establishment (1986). William Sutton, The New Age Movement and the Illuminati (1983). Nesta H. Webster, World Revolution (1921).