Henry of Kalkar

ENRICO di KALKAR. — Cistercian, born in 1328 at Kalkar (Rhineland), died in Cologne on 20 December 1408. After studying in Cologne and Paris, he entered the Order in 1365 at Cologne. He became prior in 1368, and exercised this office at various monasteries. Between 1375 and 1395 he was visitor of the German and French provinces. He wrote various works, not all of them printed, including: Exercitatorium monachale seu speculum peccatorum, attributed by some to Dionisio il Cartusiano (Op. Min. II, Cologne 1532, cols. 494–96, under the title De via purgativa); Brevis historia Ordinis Cartusienis, important because it constitutes the first source for the history of the Order (E. Martène, Veterum scriptorum... amplissima collectio, VI, Paris 1729, cols. 149–216).