Thomas à Kempis: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by

The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Also Known As	Thomas Hemerken
Born	1379 or 1380 • Kempten • Germany
Died	August 8, 1471 • near Zwolle • Netherlands
Notable Works	devotio moderna • imitation of Christ

Martin Luther

German religious leader

St. Augustine

Christian bishop and theologian

John Calvin

French theologian

St. John Henry Newman

British theologian

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

French abbot

Tyconius

Christian theologian

Saint Bonaventure

Italian theologian

John Dominic Crossan

Irish-born American theologian

G.K. Chesterton

British author

Godfrey of Saint-Victor

French philosopher

St. Isidore of Sevilla

Spanish theologian

St. Edmund of Abingdon

archbishop of Canterbury

John Keble

British priest and poet

St. Alphonsus Liguori

Roman Catholic priest and theologian

Johann Arndt

German theologian

Aphraates

Syrian ascetic

James Freeman Clarke

American minister and author

Timothy Dwight

American theologian and poet

Ronald Knox

British theologian

John Caird

British theologian