The Meister-Eckhart-Gesellschaft is an international society for the promotion of the study and research into the life, writings, and reception of Master Eckhart (c. 1260-1328) in an interdisciplinary context.
Meetings of the society will be held annually in March or April around eastern. The first meeting took place on April, 9-10, 2005 in Erfurt and the following years in Strasbourg (2006), Würzburg (2007), Trier (2008) and Regensburg (2009). Plans for the future include meetings in Munich and Paris in 2010.
The principal publication organ of the society will be a yearbook, the "Jahrbuch der Meister-Eckhart-Gesellschaft", which will be open to the whole range of disciplines that have an impact on Eckhart studies.
The website of the society will provide access to a Newsletter, on-line reviews, the on-line publication of key works of Eckhart scholarship, and an on-line bibliography with full details of the Latin and German writings of Meister Eckhart, translations, books and articles relating to Meister Eckhart, as well as a complete list of the manuscript transmission. Material for the Newsletter should be sent, preferably after prior consultation, to
Prof. Hans-Jochen Schiewer in Freiburg
(hans-jochen.schiewer[at]germanistik.uni-freiburg.de) or to
Prof. Nigel F. Palmer in Oxford
(nigel.palmer[at]seh.ox.ac.uk).
The principal language of the yearbook and website will be German, but the society extends a warm welcome to contributions in English, French, Spanish and Italian.
To the Membership.