German Dominican professor and theologian born in Hochheim, near Gotha, Thuringia, who defended a philosophy of the most original and considered the greatest German speculative mystic. He joined the order of Dominicans (1265), studying in Strasbourg and Cologne, under the influence of the teachings of Thomas Aquinas.
He studied at the priory of Saint-Jacques in Paris, became a master of theology (1302) and started there as a professor of theology. Appointed provincial of the Dominicans in Saxony (1303) and vicar general for Bohemia (1306), he resided in Strasbourg and finally settled in Cologne (1314) as master of the Dominicans.
With teachings centered on the union of the individual soul with God, a philosophy of the most original, resulting from the fusion of Greek, Neoplatonic, Arab and scholastics, starting from the assertion that man and the world are nothing without God, produced a work characterized by a search for the justification of faith that does not contain support of reason. He died in Avignon, France, being the author of Opus tripartitum, Quaestiones, Preachings and Treatises, the latter two in German. Among his treatises, the Book of Divine Consolation, On the Noble Man and On Detachment stand out.
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