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Jan van Ruysbroeck, the Flemish mystic, was born in the village of Ruysbroeck, near Brussels.

He stood in close relation to German contemplatives of the period, notably Meister Eckhart.

John of Ruusbroec or Jan van Ruusbroec sometimes modernized Ruysbroeck, was an Augustinian canon and one of the most important of the medieval mystics of.

John of Ruusbroec or Jan van Ruusbroec sometimes modernized Ruysbroeck, was an Augustinian canon and one of the most important of the medieval mystics of.

Born near Brussels, Jan van Ruysbroeck went to live with his uncle, a canon at the church of Saint Gudula, around the age of eleven.

Jan van Ruysbroeck was a Flemish mystic whose writings influenced Johann Tauler, Gerhard Groote, and other mystics.

Ruysbroeck was born in in the village whose name he took, between the towns of Brussels and Hal. He lived out his whole life within the province of Brabant.

Groenendaal.

In 1343 Ruysbroeck, together with two others, established a community at Groenendael that ultimately came under Augustinian rule. He was the prior of this community.

Ruysbroeck was not a trained theologian and had an imperfect knowledge of Latin.

Though he made use in his mystical writings of language drawn from Eckhart, such as the "birth of Christ in the soul" and the "eternal Now," he was sensitive to the kind of allegations of pantheism encountered by Eckhart and in fact directed against Ruysbroeck by Jean de Gerson.

In his later writings in particular Ruysbroeck made it clear that he did not believe in the identification of the soul with God in the mystical state, and he criticized those contemplatives who gave up the active life and lapsed into quietism.

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