Archdeacon James Brown Craven (1850 – 17 April 1924) was author of the History of the Church in Orkney and several other works on ecclesiastical history. He was a founder and the first president of the Orkney Antiquarian Society .
The son of Rev J E Craven, Free Church of Scotland minister at Newhills, near Aberdeen , he went to Orkney in 1876 to be rector of the newly built Episcopalian St.Olaf's Church in Kirkwall , and stayed there until his death. He was made Doctor of Divinity at Aberdeen University in 1908.
Craven was also the author of books on Hermetic alchemists , and mystic physicians including:
Doctor Robert Fludd (Robertus de Fluctibus), the English Rosicrucian: life and writings. 1890.
Count Michael Maier , doctor of philosophy and of medicine, alchemist, Rosicrucian, mystic, 1568–1622: life and writings. 1910.
Doctor Heinrich Khunrath : A Study in Mystical Alchemy . Published 1997. Adam McLean , Glasgow.
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