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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 189,863 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Henry Suso is the 450th most popular philosopher (down from 442nd in 2019), the 1,178th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,105th in 2019) and the 60th 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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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Henry Suso ranks 450 out of 1,081Before him are Ravidas, Yi Hwang, Alan Watts, Madhvacharya, Alain de Benoist, and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda. After him are Ibn al-Rawandi, Petrus Ramus, Abul A'la Maududi, Ernst Troeltsch, Phaedo of Elis, and Norberto Bobbio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1295, Henry Suso ranks 5Before him are Saint Roch, Isabella of France, Jean Buridan, 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 2Before him is Taddeo Gaddi. After him is Jaunutis.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Henry Suso ranks 1,178 out of 6,142Before him are Maximilian Anton, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis (1831), Helmut Rahn (1929), Theodor Storm (1817), Henry IV, Duke of Saxony (1473), Hans-Dieter Flick (1965), and Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1680). After him are Nena (1960), Maria Sophia of Neuburg (1666), Wilhelm Busch (1832), Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1690), Ernst-Günther Schenck (1904), and Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Henry Suso ranks 60Before him are Christian Thomasius (1655), Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach (1775), Carl Gustav Hempel (1905), Peter Sloterdijk (1947), Hans Reichenbach (1891), and Franz Rosenzweig (1886). After him are Ernst Troeltsch (1865), Leo Strauss (1899), Karl Löwith (1897), Karl-Otto Apel (1922), Annemarie Schimmel (1922), and Axel Honneth (1949).