- HÄMERKIN
- or HÄMMERLEINthe paternal name of THOMAS À KEMPIS (q.v. KEMPIS, THOMAS À).
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
HÄMMERLEIN — See HÄMERKIN … The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
KEMPIS, THOMAS À — born at Kempen, near Düsseldorf, son of a poor but honest and industrious craftsman named Hämerkin; joined, while yet a youth, the Brotherhood of Common Life at Deventer, in Holland, and at 20 entered the monastery of St. Agnes, near Zwolle,… … The Nuttall Encyclopaedia