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It is extremely unlikely - he is credited with all kinds of very unlikely things, including the invention of gunpowder artillery and pistols (things that were actually developed hundreds of years after his death), discovering the philosopher's stone (it still has never been discovered) and the authorship of a truly immense number of books.

It is much more likely that his name was associated with all these things by much later writers, in order to give their books and discoveries an air of importance - essentially creating fakes. His name in Latin ("Magnus") is simply a translation of his real name (de Groot), which was a common enough second name in his home country of Bavaria.

Albertus wrote only in Latin - the "Book of Egyptian Secrets" was written in German; it contains absolutely nothing to do with ancient (or even medieval) Egypt; According to Will-Erich Peuckert, the language and use of idioms in the book point to an origin in the Swabian-Alemannic region, and if so it can have no connection at all with Albertus.

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