the first collection of letters, properly so called, in German literature, as the letters of Henry Suso, which are an earlier composition, are practically sermons, a title which they bear in many manuscripts. They are not speculative, or deep meditations on mysticism; with him all was sentiment. To his letters must be joined the translation from Low German into High German of the work of Mechtilde, now at Einsiedeln. References Strauch, Margaretha Ebner und Heinrich von Nördlingen (Freiburg and Tübingen, 1882); Denifle in Deutsche Litteraturzeitung, III (1882), 921; Marie de Villermont, Un groupe mystique allemand (Brussels, 1907), 312, 423, etc. External links Catholic Encyclopedia article Clergy from Bavaria 14th-century Christian mystics 14th-century German Roman Catholic priests Roman Catholic mystics 14th-century German writers 14th-century Latin writers 14th-century translators