Proceeding to the Netherlands he took service again with Maximilian. On 8 April 1510 he dedicated the then unpublished first draft of De occulta philosophia ("On the Occult Philosophy") to Trithemius, who recommended that Agrippa keep his occult studies secret. In the winter of 1509-1510 Agrippa returned to Germany and studied with Humanist Johannes Trithemius at Würzburg. He was, however, denounced by the Franciscan prior Jean Catilinet as a " Judaizing heretic", and was forced to leave Dôle in 1510. Agrippa’s lectures received attention, and he was given a doctorate in theology because of them. The book was probably intended to impress Margaret. At Dôle, Agrippa wrote De nobilitate et praecellentia foeminae sexus (On the Nobility and Excellence of the Feminine Sex), a work that aimed at proving the superiority of women using cabalistic ideas. He was given the opportunity to lecture a course at the University on Hebrew scholar Johann Reuchlin's De verbo mirifico. Īgrippa's academic career began in 1509, receiving the patronage of Margaret of Austria, governor of Franche-Comté, and Antoine de Vergy, archbishop of Besançon and chancellor of the University of Dole. He served as a captain in the army of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, who awarded him the title of Ritter or knight. He continued his travels by way of Valencia, the Baleares, Sardinia, Naples, Avignon, and Lyon. In 1508 Agrippa traveled to Spain to work as a mercenary. He later studied in Paris, where he apparently took part in a secret society involved in the occult.
Agrippa himself named Albert’s Speculum as one of his first occult study texts. It is likely that Agrippa's interest in the occult came from this Albertist influence.
The University of Cologne was one of the centers of Thomism, and the faculty of arts was split between the dominant Thomists and the Albertists.
Agrippa studied at the University of Cologne from 1499 to 1502, (age 13–16) when he received the degree of magister artium. Many members of his family had been in the service of the House of Habsburg. Agrippa was born in Nettersheim, near Cologne on 14 September 1486 to a family of middle nobility.
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