Henry of Kalkar

Heinrich Eger Kalkar ( Heinrich Egher, Heinrich von Calcar, * 1328 in Kalkar, † December 20, 1408 in Cologne ) was a German mystic and kartäusischer Choral theorists.

Life

After attending grammar school in Kalkar the 1328 ibid born Heinrich Eger studied in Cologne and Paris. 1356 Eger in Paris Master of Arts, 1358/59 Magister regens was. From 1363 he lived as a canon of the collegiate church of St. George in Cologne and at the Collegiate Church of St. Suitbert in Kaiserwerth and entered 1365 in Cologne in the Carthusian Order one, and he, 1367-1372 Prior to Monnikhuizen at Arnhem, then rector in Roermond 1378-1384 Prior to St. Barbara in Cologne and the connection was prior to 1396 in Marie mountains near Strasbourg. From 1375 to 1395 Eger was also inferior working as a Visitor of the Province of the Order Alemannia. In 1396 he retired and lived until his death in 1408 as a simple monk in Cologne Charterhouse.

Heinrich Eger wrote as late scholastics, Choral theorists and mystics music-theoretical, legal, historical and especially ascetic- mystical writings, of which in particular latter great influence on the religious revival devotio moderna around 1374 by Heinrich Eger bewogenen you to stop Geert Groote had.