Heinrich von Nördlingen

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Heinrich von Nördlingen (* around 1310; † possibly until 1379) was a pastor, preacher and, in particular, a mediator of mystical spirituality .

Life

After 1330 Heinrich worked as a secular priest a . a. in the monasteries Ober- and Niederschönenfeld and Zimmer and with the Dominican Sisters in Maria Medingen . Here he met the nun Margareta Ebner . His correspondence with her is the most important source about his life and work; it is the oldest surviving German-language collection of letters . In his letters, Heinrich plays the keyboard of a mystical fashion language with confidence, without having to be considered a mystic himself.

In 1336 Heinrich stayed in Avignon . His attempt to settle down as pastor of Fessenheim failed in 1338. After the decree of Ludwig of Bavaria of August 6, 1338 against the interdict Benedict XII. He left the country as a supporter of the Pope and came to Basel in 1339 , where he worked extremely successfully as a preacher and was in contact with Heinrich Seuse and Johannes Tauler among the Basel friends of God . Again and again he made trips from here; In 1347 he transferred relics of Emperor Heinrich II and his wife Kunigunde von Bamberg to the Basel Minster on behalf of the Basel diocese . The Upper German translation of the work The flowing light of the deity of Mechthild of Magdeburg from 1345 was probably made in the vicinity of Heinrich and the friends of God ; the oldest surviving copy of this translation, Codex Einsidlensis 277 , is now in the Einsiedeln Abbey Library . By 1348 at the latest, Heinrich had also been in correspondence with Christine Ebner in the Dominican convent in Engelthal , which he visited in 1351 for a few weeks. He conveyed to her the work of Mechthild of Magdeburg and writings of his (spiritual) "father" Tauler. In 1348 Heinrich fled Basel from the plague and settled in Sulz in Alsace , then lived as a traveling preacher and returned to Medingen in 1350. Probably after Margarete's death (1351) he worked as a pastor in the Augustinian convent of Pillenreuth until 1379 and conveyed mystical literature there from Engelthal. In the 15th century, this was given to the Reformed Augustinian Choir Women Monastery in Inzigkofen for transcription, which means that a substantial part of mystical literature has been preserved for posterity.

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  1. ↑ According to Gürsching (see literature)
  2. ^ Karl Stehlin : Heinrich von Nördlingen in Basel. Retrieved May 21, 2020 .
  3. ↑ See Siegfried Ringler: Christine Ebner . In: VL² , 2, 297-302 (1980). Ders .: Life and revelation literature in women's monasteries in the Middle Ages. Sources and Studies. Artemis, Munich 1980, p. 49f .; 53-58; 313
personal data
SURNAME Heinrich von Nördlingen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION mystic
DATE OF BIRTH around 1310
DATE OF DEATH after 1351