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Johann Tauler

German mystic
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Born:
c. 1300, Strassburg, Bishopric of Strassburg [now Strasbourg, France]
Died:
June 16, 1361, Strassburg
Subjects Of Study:
mysticism

Johann Tauler (born c. 1300, Strassburg, Bishopric of Strassburg [now Strasbourg, France]—died June 16, 1361, Strassburg) was a Dominican preacher, who, with Meister Eckhart and Heinrich Suso, was one of the chief Rhineland mystics.

Educated at the Dominican convent at Strassburg and the studium generale at Cologne, Tauler later became a lector at Strassburg. During a period of exile, he preached and lectured in Basel, Switzerland, returning again in 1347–48 to his birthplace. He was greatly influenced by Eckhart, though Tauler’s teaching, based on St. Thomas Aquinas, stresses practical rather than speculative mystical theology. References to the Friends of God (Gottesfreunde) appear in his sermons, alluding to a circle of like-minded, devout Rhinelanders much influenced by Tauler, Eckhart, and Suso.

Tauler’s sermons, written in Middle High German, were valued highly by Martin Luther. They are collected in the volume Johannes Tauler: Sermons (1985), translated by Maria Shrady.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica This article was most recently revised and updated by René Ostberg.