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3 unusual facts about Henry Denifle


German mysticism

Henry Denifle, a 19th-century Austrian scholar who devoted much work to the German mystics

Henry Denifle

He was on his way to Cambridge, where he was to be made Honorary Doctor of that university, when he was struck down by the hand of death.

The Friend of God from the Oberland

Henry Denifle Der Gottesfreund im Oberlande und Nikolaus von Basel (1870) The researches documented here have led to the growing belief that the “Friend” is not a real person at all, but a literary invention.



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