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Johannes Engel
.
Johann Hiltalinger
(known also as
John of Basel
,
Johannes Angelus
) (1315?–1392) was a Swiss
Augustinian
theologian who became
Bishop of Lombez
.
Life
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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
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He wrote, among other things,
Commentaria in libros sententiarum
. Together with others, he is praised as a peak of Augustinian scholarship in the Middle Ages.
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References
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External links
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain
:
Jackson, Samuel Macauley, ed. (1914).
New Schaff?Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
(third ed.). London and New York: Funk and Wagnalls.
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