ENRICO of LOVANIO. — Dominican theologian and writer, d. on 18 October 1340 (?) in Cologne or Lovanio. Son of the noble Lovanian family de Calstris (van der Kalster), E. was prior in Lovanio in 1292, then, at least between 1297 and 1303, lector in Cologne. Moral sentences, an epistle, and a sermon are known from him. Because of his virtues he was sometimes called “blessed.” W. Preger’s thesis that he was a friend of Taulero is untenable.
BIBL.: H. Choquet, Sancti Belgii O. P., Douai 1918, pp. 77–87; Sources and Researches on the History of the Dominican Order in Germany, XV, pp. 48–49; XVI-XVI, pp. 58, 63; W. Preger, History of German Mysticism, II, Lipsa 1881, pp. 120–121; G. Meersseman, H. van den Gelotte, in Archivum Fratrum Praedic., 1 (1931), pp. 158–80; id., in Bildhagen tot von bibl. graphie von de nederl. dom. vroomheid, s. n. t., pp. 35–37. Angelo Walz