Meister Eckhart
Eckhart von Hochheim, known as Meister Eckhart, was born around 1260 in Tambach, in Thuringia, and died around 1328, probably in Avignon, before 30 April 1328, the date of a papal document that already mentions him as deceased. He entered the Order of Preachers (the Dominicans), studied in Cologne and Paris, and obtained the title of magister, whence the name “Meister.” He held the Dominican chair of theology in Paris in two periods (1302–1303 and 1311–1313), served as provincial of Saxony from 1303 and as vicar general of Bohemia, and worked as a preacher and spiritual director in Strasbourg and Cologne. ...