Christian mysticism translation

C. de B. Evans

1866 – 1935

Clare de Brereton Evans was a pioneering British scientist and translator who in 1897 became the first woman awarded a Doctor of Science degree in Chemistry in Britain, for her research on aromatic amines at the Central Technical College. Setting aside her scientific career, she produced the first substantial English translations of Meister Eckhart's Middle High German sermons and treatises, published in two volumes in 1924–1931 by John M. Watkins, making the medieval Dominican mystic's radical speculative theology accessible to English-speaking readers for the first time. Her translations introduced Eckhart's influential concepts of the God beyond God, the soul's spark, and mystical union to the twentieth-century Western esoteric and mystical reading public.