Henry Suso

Heinrich Seuse, attacked by demons, devils, men and animals (image from the copy, second half of the 14th century, Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire, Strasbourg)

Henry Suso (* 21 March 1295 or 1297 in Konstanz or Überlingen; † 25 January 1366 in Ulm), in German Heinrich Seuse, also Heinrich (von) Suso or (less commonly) Heinrich von Berg, also called Amandus was a Dominican friar and an important representative of late medieval German mysticism.

Editions and translations

The Exemplar (Middle High German):

• Henry Suso, Das Buch von dem Diener (The Life of the Servant), ed. K. Bihlmeyer, Heinrich Seuse. Deutsche Schriften, 1907 (translated by Frank Tobin, in The Exemplar, with Two German Sermons, New York: Paulist Press, 1989, pp. 61–204)
• Das Büchlein der ewigen Weisheit (The Little Book of Eternal Wisdom), ed. K. Bihlmeyer, ibid. (trans. in F. Tobin, ibid., pp. 204–304)
• Das Büchlein der Wahrheit (The Little Book of Truth), ed. K. Bihlmeyer, ibid. (trans. in F. Tobin, ibid., pp. 305–332)
• Das Briefbüchlein (The Little Book of Letters), ed. K. Bihlmeyer, ibid., pp. 360–393 (trans. in F. Tobin, ibid., pp. 333–360)
• "The exemplary life and writings of Blessed Henry Suso, Complete ed. based on manuscripts, with a critical introd. & explanatory notes by Nicholas Heller (translated from the German by Sister M. Ann Edward (Sister Mary of the Immaculate Heart). 2 v. (c) Priory Press; 15 Apr 1962)
• Exemplar, A complete and illustrated (bilingual) Dutch translation.Seusewerken.nl (translated from the Middle High German by Peter Freens; with illustrations by Anna Ruiters.

Preaching and Letters (Middle High German):

• Henry Suso, The Great Book of Letters, ed. K. Bihlmeyer, Heinrich Seuse. Deutsche Schriften, 1907, pp. 405–494
• Sermons 1 and 4 (those now recognized as authentic) are published in English translation in The Exemplar, with Two German Sermons (trans. F. Tobin, (New York: Paulist Press, 1989), pp. 361–376)

Latin:

• Henry Suso, Horologium sapientiae (Clock of Wisdom), ed. P. Künzle, Heinrich Seuses Horologium sapientiae, Freiburg: Universitatsverlag, 1977 (translated by Edmund Colledge, Wisdom's Watch upon the Hours, Catholic University of America Press [1994])

Literature

• Rudolf Steiner: Eleven European Mystics. Translated by Karl E. Zimmer. Rudolf Steiner Publications 1960 rsarchive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Mysticism at the Dawn of the Modern Age. Translated by Karl E. Zimmer. SteinerBooks 1980, CW 7, ISBN 0-8334-0758-8 rsarchive.org

German

• Rudolf Steiner: Die Mystik im Aufgange des neuzeitlichen Geisteslebens und ihr Verhältnis zur modernen Weltanschauung, GA 7 (1990), ISBN 3-7274-0070-6 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Schriften. Kritische Ausgabe (SKA). Band 5: Schriften über Mystik, Mysterienwesen und Religionsgeschichte
  Die Mystik im Aufgange des neuzeitlichen Geisteslebens und ihr Verhältnis zur modernen Weltanschauung – Das Christentum als mystische Tatsache und die Mysterien des Altertums. Herausgegeben und kommentiert von Christian Clement. Frommann-Holzboog Verlag, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-7728-2635-1

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