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Also Known As Denys Ryckel • Denys van Rijkel • Denys van Leeuwen • Denys de Leeuwis
Born 1402 or 1403 • France
Died March 12, 1471 • Roermond • Netherlands
Subjects Of Study Rhineland • mysticism
Meister Eckhart
German theologian and mystic
Hugh of Saint-Victor, undated engraving.
Hugh of Saint-Victor
French theologian
Philo Judaeus
Philo Judaeus
Jewish philosopher
St. Ignatius of Loyola
St. Ignatius of Loyola
Spanish saint
Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedish philosopher
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
French abbot
Joachim Of Fiore
Italian theologian
St. Bonaventure
Saint Bonaventure
Italian theologian
St. Gregory of Nyssa
Saint Gregory of Nyssa
Byzantine philosopher and theologian
Gerson, engraving
Jean de Gerson
French theologian
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
Syrian author
Macarius the Egyptian
Egyptian monk
Schwenckfeld, detail from a portrait by an unknown artist, 1556; in the Schwenkfelder Library, Pennsburg, Pa.
Kaspar Schwenckfeld von Ossig
German theologian
Shaykh Aḥmad Sirhindī
Indian mystic and theologian
Isaac Of Stella
English philosopher and theologian
William of Saint-Thierry
French philosopher
Sebastian Franck
German theologian
Diadochus Of Photice
theologian
Evagrius Ponticus
Christian mystic
Gregory of Sinai
Greek Orthodox monk