Born at
Basel, he entered the Augustinian order and received the degree of
master of theology at the
University of Paris in 1371. From 1371 to 1377 he was provincial in the
Rhenish-
Swabian province of the order. He again held this post in 1379, being general procurator in the intervening period. At the outbreak of the
Great Western Schism, he sided with
Pope Clement VI, who made him general prior of the order in September 1379. He became an activist for Clement, particularly in the
Upper Rhine country. After his elevation to the see of Lombez in 1380 he remained Clement's confidential man on the Upper Rhine and continued to work at
Freiburg for the curia of the
Avignon Papacy. He died at Freiburg in 1392. ==Works==