biography
pronunciation:
[towler]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1300–61)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Strasbourg, Alsace, of a prosperous bourgeois family. After entering the Dominican order, he became a pupil of Meister Eckhart. Some 80 mystical sermons (1339–61) remain from his career in Strasbourg and Basel which made their mark on the devotional literature of the time. Couched in relatively plain language, they are didactic and ethical in tone, and favour the active over the contemplative life. He had come to turn away from the speculative mysticism of Eckhart and Seuse towards more practical pastoral matters. |
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