Henry of Nördlingen
Henry of Nördlingen ( * 1310, † possibly to 1379 ) was a pastor, preacher, and in particular mediator of mystical spirituality.
Life
Heinrich worked after 1330 as a diocesan priest, inter alia, in the monasteries of Upper and Lower and Schönfeld rooms and at the Dominican Sisters in Maria Medingen. Here he met the nun Margaret Ebner know. His correspondence with her is the most important source about his life and work; it is the oldest surviving German -language collection of letters at all. In his letters Heinrich plays masterfully on the keyboard of a mystical language of fashion without it therefore has to apply himself as a mystic.
1336 Henry lived in Avignon. His attempt to settle as pastor of Fessenheim failed 1338th After the court of Ludwig of Bavaria from the August 6, 1338 against the interdict Benedict XII. He left as a follower of the pope the land and came to Basel in 1339, where he had great success as a preacher and was in contact with Henry Suso and John Tauler in the circle of the city of God and friends. Time and again he took from here travel; In 1347 he was charged by the Basel diocese relics of Emperor Henry II and his wife Gwendolyn of Bamberg in the cathedral. Probably within Heinrich and the friends of God the Upper German translation of the work was The Flowing Light of the Godhead of Mechthild of Magdeburg in 1345; the oldest surviving copy of this translation, the Codex Einsidlensis 277, is now in the Abbey Library of Einsiedeln. At least since 1348 was Heinrich also corresponded in contact with Christine Ebner in the Dominican convent angel valley, which he visited in 1351 for a few weeks. He gave her the work of Mechthild of Magdeburg and writings of his ( spiritual ) " Father" Tauler. 1348 Henry fled from the plague from Basle and settled in Sulz in Alsace, then lived as an itinerant preacher and returned back to 1350 Medingen. He was probably after the death of Margaret ( 1351 ) then worked until 1379 as a pastor in the Augustinian convent Pillenreuth and mediated there mystical literature from Engelthal. This was then left to the Reformed Augustinian choir Women's pin Inzigkofen for transcription in the 15th century, creating a weighty part of mystical literature of posterity remained.