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The Friend of God from the Oberland (Der Gottesfreund vom Oberland, sometimes translated as "the friend of God from the Upland," or "the mysterious layman from the Oberland") was the name of a figure in Middle Ages German mysticism, associated with the Friends of God and the conversion of Johannes Tauler. His name comes from the Bernese Oberland.

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The Friend of God from the Oberland

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The Friend of God from the Oberland (Der Gottesfreund vom Oberland, sometimes translated as "the friend of God from the Upland," or "the mysterious layman...

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Friends of God

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The Friend of God from the Oberland, although probably written by Rulman Merswin himself. Christianity portal Margaretha Ebner The Friend of God from...

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Bernese Oberland

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The Bernese Oberland (German: Berner Oberland; Alemannic German: Bärner Oberland; French: Oberland bernois), sometimes also known as the Bernese Highlands...

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Meister Eckhart

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that he authored the simplistic Book of the Nine Rocks published by Merswin and attributed to The Friend of God from the Oberland). On the other hand, most...

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Rulman Merswin

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Merswin, under the guidance of The Friend of God from the Oberland, wanted to purify the Church. This stress on reform brought The Friends of God into conflict...

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Johannes Tauler

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discipline by "The Friend of God from the Oberland" cannot be regarded as historical. Tauler left no formal treatises, either in Latin or the vernacular....

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Wilhelm Rath

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translations of certain medieval mystics, notably the Friend of God from the Oberland, Bernard Silvestris, Alanus ab Insulis and John of Hildesheim. Upon...

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Nicholas of Basel

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with the mysterious "Friend of God from the Oberland," the "double" of Rulman Merswin, the Strasbourg banker who was one of the leaders of the 14th-century...

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Alexander Suvorov

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through the deep snows of the Panixer (Ringenkopf) Pass and into the 9,000-foot mountains of the Bündner Oberland, by then deep in snow. Thousands of Russians...

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Old Prussian language

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German: Schoh (Standard German Schuh), as did the High Prussian Oberland subdialect. Until the 1938 renaming of East Prussian placenames, Old Prussian river-...

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List of military unit mottoes by country

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''Steadfast in loyalty'') Jägerbataillon 18: Das Oberland- Fest in uns'rer Hand! (German for ''The Highlands- Firmly in our hand'') Pionierbataillon...

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Alex Shoumatoff

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Switzerland's Bernese Oberland. His father, a passionate mountain climber, took Shoumatoff and his older brother Nick up major peaks in the Alps. Shoumatoff's...

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List of poems by Ivan Bunin

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(Эпитафия). Kurjer, 1902, No.144. May 26, as "At the Graveyard" (На кладбище). "A Winter Day in Oberland" (Зимний день в Оберланде) Russkaya Mysl, 1902...

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Gertrude Bell

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the La Meije and Mont Blanc, and recorded 10 new paths or first ascents in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland. One Alpine peak in the Bernese Oberland,...

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Helen Storrow

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chalet just outside Adelboden, in the Bernese Oberland. Known simply as Our Chalet, the retreat remains in the hands of the Girl Scouts, and hosts "Helen...

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