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SUSO [SEIISEI, HEINRICH (13oo-1366), See also:German mystic, was See also:born of See also:good See also:family at tberlingen on See also:Lake See also:Constance on the 21st of See also:March, in all See also:probability in the See also:year. 1300; he assumed the name of his See also:mother, his See also:father being a Herr von See also:Berg. He
See also:Susa, the Arab See also:town which succeeded See also:Hadrumetum (q.v.), was fortified by the Aghlabite rulers of See also:Kairawan in the 9th See also:century A.D. It shared the See also:general fortunes of See also:Tunisia and became a noted flaunt of pirates, who raided the See also:coast of See also:Italy. In 1537 it was unsuccessfully besieged by the See also:marquis of Terra Nova, in the service of See also:Charles V., but in 1539 was captured for the See also:emperor by See also:Andrea See also:Doria. As soon as the imperial forces were withdrawn it became again the seat of See also:Turkish piracy. The town was attacked by the See also:French and the Knights of St See also:John in 1770, and by the Venetians in 1764. It remained, however, in the See also:possession of the See also:bey of See also:Tunis.
in Das Biichlein der ewigen Weisheit, written some years later in Constance, he discusses the See also:practical aspects of See also:mysticism. The latter See also:work, which Suso also translated into Latin under the See also:title of Horologium sapientiae, has been called the finest See also:fruit of German mysticism. Suso is the poet of the See also:early mystic See also:movement, " the Minnesinger of Gottesminne." But his faith is purely See also:medieval in See also:tone, inspired by the romanticism. of the See also:age of See also:chivalry; the See also:individualism, the philosophic insight and the See also:anti-See also:Catholic tendencies which made the mystic movement in its later manifestations so important a forerunner of the See also:Reformation are absent.
Suso's See also:works were collected as early as 1482 and again in 1512; See also:recent See also:editions: Heinrich Suso's Leben and Schriften, ed. by M. Diepenbrock (1829; 4th ed., 1884); Suso's Deutsche Schriften, by F. H. S. Denifle (1878-188o, not completed), and Deutsche Schriften, by K. Bihlmeyer (2 vols., 1907). See also W. Preger, See also:Die Briefe Heinrich Suusos (1867) ; W. Preger, Geschichte der deutschen Mystik (1882), vol. ii.; J. See also:Jager, Heinrich Seuse aus Schwaben (1894).
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