PHILOSOPHER

Meister Eckhart

1260 - 1328

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Eckhart von Hochheim (c. 1260 – c. 1328), commonly known as Meister Eckhart (pronounced [ˈmaɪstɐ ʔˈɛkaʁt]), Master Eckhart or Eckehart, claimed original name Johannes Eckhart, was a German Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher and mystic. He was born near Gotha in the Landgraviate of Thuringia (now Thuringia in central Germany) in the Holy Roman Empire. Eckhart came into prominence during the Avignon Papacy at a time of increased tensions between monastic orders, diocesan clergy, the Franciscan Order, and Eckhart's Dominican Order. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Meister Eckhart has received more than 1,830,904 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Meister Eckhart is the 105th most popular philosopher (up from 110th in 2019), the 138th most popular biography from Germany (up from 144th in 2019) and the 14th most popular German Philosopher.

Meister Eckhart is most famous for his sermons and writings on the nature of God and the soul. He was a Christian mystic and theologian who lived in the 13th century.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Meister Eckhart ranks 105 out of 1,267. Before him are Roger Bacon, Anaximenes of Miletus, Al-Tabari, Aristippus, Jacques Derrida, and Roland Barthes. After him are Zhu Xi, Emil Cioran, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Tertullian, and Gilles Deleuze.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1260, Meister Eckhart ranks 1. After him are Władysław I the Elbow-high, Guillaume de Nogaret, Antipope Nicholas V, Al-Ashraf Khalil, Matthew III Csák, Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy, Al-Said Barakah, Maximus Planudes, Anna of Hungary, Lloque Yupanqui, and Khutulun. Among people deceased in 1328, Meister Eckhart ranks 3. Before him are Ibn Taymiyyah, and Charles IV of France. After him are Clementia of Hungary, Isabella of Castile, Queen of Aragon, Yesün Temür, John of Montecorvino, Ragibagh Khan, Galeazzo I Visconti, Charles, Duke of Calabria, Prince Hisaaki, and Castruccio Castracani.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Meister Eckhart ranks 138 out of 7,253. Before him are Carl Orff (1895), George I of Great Britain (1660), Georg Philipp Telemann (1681), Baron Munchausen (1720), Max von Laue (1879), and Christian IX of Denmark (1818). After him are Otto Hahn (1879), Max Müller (1823), Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805), Frederick William III of Prussia (1770), Gerd von Rundstedt (1875), and Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Meister Eckhart ranks 14. Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775), Karl Jaspers (1883), Jürgen Habermas (1929), Carl von Clausewitz (1780), Nicholas of Cusa (1401), and Walter Benjamin (1892). After him are Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767), Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1846), Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900), Friedrich Fröbel (1782), and Baron d'Holbach (1723).

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