Portrait of Henry Suso

Henry Suso

German Dominican friar and mystic

Lived
1295–1366
Country
Germany

Updated September 2026

About Henry Suso

Henry Suso, OP was a German Dominican friar and the most popular vernacular writer of the fourteenth century. An important author in both Latin and Middle High German, he is also notable for defending Meister Eckhart's legacy after Eckhart was posthumously condemned for heresy in 1329. He died in Ulm on 25 January 1366, and was beatified by the Catholic Church in 1831.

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