Cologneקלן
Rhineland (Germany)
Cologne (Köln), on the Rhine in western Germany, was founded by the Romans in 50 CE as Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium. Its Jewish community is among the oldest in the German lands, attested by a decree of Constantine in 321; Jacob ben Asher, author of the Arba'ah Turim, was probably born there around 1270 and later lived in Toledo. Cologne's bishops became archbishops in 795, its Gothic cathedral was begun in 1248 and completed in 1880, and the city was a hub of medieval scholastic and mystical learning: Albert the Great taught at its Dominican house and died there in 1280, Duns Scotus died there in 1308, and its university was chartered in 1388.
2 teachers
Teachers who lived here
Albert the Great
Albert the Great (1200–1280)
teacher and final residence 1248–1280
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)
philosophical formation 1248–1252
Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart (1260–1328)
teacher; inquisition trial 1323–1327
Duns Scotus
Duns Scotus (1266–1308)
lecturer and death 1307–1308
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Yaakov ben Asher
Yaakov ben Asher (Ba'al HaTurim) (1269–1343)
birth 1269–1303
Henry Suso
Henry Suso (1295–1366)
study under Eckhart 1324–1327
Johannes Tauler
Johannes Tauler (1300–1361)
Dominican studies 1318–1330
Heinrich Bullinger
Heinrich Bullinger (1504–1575)
university studies 1519–1522
Pope Alexander VII
Pope Alexander VII (1599–1667)
papal nuncio 1639–1651
Pope Leo XII
Pope Leo XII (1760–1829)
papal nuncio in Germany 1794–1805
Georg Ohm
Georg Ohm (1789–1854)
Yitzchok Alster
Yitzchok Alster (1935–?)
born 1935
Pope Gregory VI
Pope Gregory VI (?–1048)
exile 1046–1048