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PHILOSOPHER

Meister Eckhart

1260 - 1328

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Eckhart von Hochheim (c. 1260 – c. 1328), commonly known as Meister Eckhart, Master Eckhart or Eckehart, claimed original name Johannes Eckhart, was a German Catholic theologian, philosopher and mystic, born near Gotha in the Landgraviate of Thuringia (now 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. In later life, he was accused of heresy and brought up before the local Franciscan-led Inquisition, and tried as a heretic by Pope John XXII with the bull In Agro Dominico of March 27, 1329.. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Meister Eckhart has received more than 1,665,899 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia. Meister Eckhart is the 110th most popular philosopher (down from 103rd in 2019), the 144th most popular biography from Germany (down from 133rd in 2019) and the 16th 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 110 out of 1,081. Before him are Jacques Derrida, Aristippus, Joseph Priestley, Friedrich Fröbel, Philo, and Pyrrho. After him are Charles Fourier, Gilles Deleuze, John Venn, Bodhidharma, Al-Tabari, and George Gurdjieff.

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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, Khutulun, Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy, Al-Said Barakah, Maximus Planudes, Lloque Yupanqui, and Anna of Hungary. 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, John of Montecorvino, Charles, Duke of Calabria, Yesün Temür, Galeazzo I Visconti, Ragibagh Khan, Prince Hisaaki, and Castruccio Castracani.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Meister Eckhart ranks 144 out of 6,142. Before him are Ambrose (340), Frederick William I of Prussia (1688), Anne of Cleves (1515), Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845), Alfred Jodl (1890), and Charles the Fat (839). After him are Johann Christian Bach (1735), Franz von Papen (1879), Walter Model (1891), Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805), Frederick William III of Prussia (1770), and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Meister Eckhart ranks 16. Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775), Nicholas of Cusa (1401), Carl von Clausewitz (1780), Walter Benjamin (1892), Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767), and Friedrich Fröbel (1782). After him are Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900), Oswald Spengler (1880), Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1846), Baron d'Holbach (1723), and Wilhelm Dilthey (1833).

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