biography
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Eckhart, Johannes
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also spelled Eckart or Eckehart, known as Meister Eckhart (‘Master Eckhart’)
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pronunciation:
[ekhah(r)t]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1260–c.1327)
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| biography:
| Theologian and mystic, born in Hocheim, WC Germany. He entered the Dominican order, studied and taught in Paris, and became Dominican provincial in Saxony (1303–11). From 1312 he preached at Strasbourg, Frankfurt, and Cologne. His teaching was a mystic pantheism, influential on later religious mysticism and speculative philosophy. In 1325 he was arraigned for heresy by the Archbishop of Cologne, and two years after his death his writings were condemned by Pope John XXII. |
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