Eckhart, Meister, a German philosopher and divine, profoundly speculative and mystical; entered the Dominican Order, and rapidly attained to a high position in the Church; arraigned for heresy in 1325, and was acquitted, but two years after his death his writings were condemned as heretical by a papal bull; died in 1327.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Eckermann, Johann Peter * Eckmühl