Famous Wizards that even Muggle history knows about

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Dave wrote:

<< Thinks that the slur "Dursleys" should be created to describe 
nasty Muggles. >>

Kind of hard on the town of Dursley. 

<< BTW, are there any other real people (in our world) besides Flamel 
who were Wizards in the Potterverse? I was thinking maybe Johannes 
Kepler >>

Famous Wizard Cards: Ron: "I've got about five hundred, but I haven't 
got Agrippa or Ptolemy." Narrator: "Soon he had not only Dumbledore 
and Morgana, but Hengist of Woodcroft, Alberic Grunnion, Circe, 
Paracelsus, and Merlin."

Agrippa, Ptolemy, and Paracelsus are known in Muggle history. (see 
below)

Morgana, Circe, Merlin, and Cliodna are known in Muggle mythology:  
IIRC Circe is said to be a nymph, daughter of Helios. Merlin is 
sometimes said to be the son of the Devil by a nun, but usually to be 
a human who studied hard. Cliodna is said to be a Celtic goddess. 
Morgana is Morgan le Fay from the matiere de Bretagne -- I think 
she's generally supposed to be a human mage.

Does anyone know anything about any Hengist of Woodcroft or Alberic 
Grunnion? 

http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/p/paracelsus.html 
"Paracelsus who was born Philippus Aureolus (1493-1541) took the 
pseudonym of Theophrastus Bombastus Von Hohenheim.He became a renown 
physician, alchemist and occultist. Supposedly he invented the name 
Paracelsus, which he was widely known by, which means "superior to 
Calsus." Celsus was an early Roman physician."

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/7850/ ""In his influential work 
De occulta philosophia libri tres (1531), Agrippa combined magic, 
astrology, Qabbalah, theurgy, medecine, and the occult properties of 
plants, rocks, and metals. This work was an important factor in the 
spread of the idea of occult sciences."

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/people/ancient_epoch/ptolemy.ht
ml "Ptolemy was a Greek astronomer who lived between 85-165 A.D. He 
put together his own ideas with those of Aristotle and Hipparchus and 
formed the geocentric theory." Actually, I'm sure there was a 
geocentric theory before Ptolemy computed all those epicycles to make 
the theory agree with observations.