PHILOSOPHER

Henry Suso

1295 - 1366

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Henry Suso, OP (also called Amandus, a name adopted in his writings, and Heinrich Seuse or Heinrich von Berg in German; 21 March 1295 – 25 January 1366) was a German Dominican friar and the most popular vernacular writer of the fourteenth century (when considering the number of surviving manuscripts). Suso is thought to have been born on 21 March 1295. An important author in both Latin and Middle High German, he is also notable for defending Meister Eckhart's legacy after Eckhart was posthumously condemned for heresy in 1329. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Suso has received more than 203,666 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Henry Suso is the 431st most popular philosopher (up from 450th in 2019), the 1,107th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,178th in 2019) and the 58th most popular German Philosopher.

Henry Suso was a German mystic and Catholic priest who lived in the 14th century. He is most famous for his book, The Life of the Servant, which was translated into English in 1877.

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  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.14

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  • 2.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Henry Suso ranks 431 out of 1,267. Before him are Adolf von Harnack, Pierre d'Ailly, Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Hunayn ibn Ishaq, Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, and H. L. A. Hart. After him are Abul A'la Maududi, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Ronald Dworkin, Antoine Destutt de Tracy, Giles of Rome, and Ernest Gellner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1295, Henry Suso ranks 5. Before him are Saint Roch, Jean Buridan, Isabella of France, and Nicephorus Gregoras. After him are Odo IV, Duke of Burgundy, Catherine of Austria, Duchess of Calabria, and Nicholas Orsini. Among people deceased in 1366, Henry Suso ranks 2. Before him is Taddeo Gaddi. After him are Jaunutis, and Ulrich IV, Count of Württemberg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Henry Suso ranks 1,107 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm Gustloff (1895), Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg (1670), Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine (1617), Veit Stoss (1450), Lothar von Richthofen (1894), and Gottfried Feder (1883). After him are Petrus Apianus (1495), Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse (1777), Prince Henry of Prussia (1862), Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810), Lale Andersen (1905), and Gerhard Herzberg (1904).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Henry Suso ranks 58. Before him are Karl Rahner (1904), Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann (1842), Christian Thomasius (1655), Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach (1775), Peter Sloterdijk (1947), and Franz Rosenzweig (1886). After him are Johannes Althusius (1563), Paul Natorp (1854), Hans Reichenbach (1891), Ernst Troeltsch (1865), Carl Stumpf (1848), and Karl-Otto Apel (1922).

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