Johann Hiltalinger (known also as John of Basel, Johannes Angelus) (1315?–1392) was a Swiss

Augustinian Augustinian may refer to: *Augustinians, members of religious orders following the Rule of St Augustine *Augustinianism, the teachings of Augustine of Hippo and his intellectual heirs *Someone who follows Augustine of Hippo * Canons Regular of Sain ...

theologian who became

Bishop of Lombez The former Roman Catholic Diocese of Lombez (or Lombès) existed, with see at Lombez in the present department of Gers in Gascony Gascony (; french: Gascogne ; oc, Gasconha ; eu, Gaskoinia) was a province of the southwestern Kingdom of Fran ...

Life

Born at

Basel , french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese , neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS ...

, he entered the Augustinian order and received the degree of master of theology at the

University of Paris , image_name = Coat of arms of the University of Paris.svg , image_size = 150px , caption = Coat of Arms , latin_name = Universitas magistrorum et scholarium Parisiensis , motto = ''Hic et ubique terrarum'' (Latin) , mottoeng = Here and a ...

in 1371. From 1371 to 1377 he was provincial in the

Rhenish The Rhineland (german: Rheinland; french: Rhénanie; nl, Rijnland; ksh, Rhingland; Latinised name: ''Rhenania'') is a loosely defined area of Western Germany along the Rhine, chiefly its middle section. Term Historically, the Rhinelands ...

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n 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 The Upper Rhine (german: Oberrhein ; french: Rhin Supérieur) is the section of the Rhine between Basel in Switzerland and Bingen in Germany, surrounded by the Upper Rhine Plain. The river is marked by Rhine-kilometres 170 to 529 (the sc ...

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

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.Eric Leland Saak, ''The Reception of Augustine in the Later Middle Ages'', p. 379, in ''The Reception of the Church Fathers in the West: from the Carolingians to the Maurists'', Volume 1 (1996), editor Irena Dorota Backus; the other names are Gregory of Rimini, Alfonsus Vargas,

John Klenkok Johannes Klenkok (or Klenke) (c. 1310 – 15 June 1374) was a German Augustinian friar, known as a theologian and disciple of Gregory of Rimini. Life Klenkok was born in the County of Hoya, part of what is now Lower Saxony, son of a castellan in Th ...

, and

Hugolino of Orvieto Hugolino of Orvieto, was an important Scholastic theologian and Augustinian friar of the fourteenth century, representing the Augustinian School of thought within the theological and philosophical spheres. Hugolino was born sometime after 130 ...

, with mention also of

Bartholomew of Urbino Bartholomew (Aramaic: ; grc, Βαρθολομαῖος, translit=Bartholomaîos; la, Bartholomaeus; arm, Բարթողիմէոս; cop, ⲃⲁⲣⲑⲟⲗⲟⲙⲉⲟⲥ; he, בר-תולמי, translit=bar-Tôlmay; ar, بَرثُولَماو� ...

References

External links

* *https://archive.org/stream/newschaffherzog04haucgoog#page/n308/mode/2up {{DEFAULTSORT:Hiltalinger, Johann 1315 births 1392 deaths Swiss Christian theologians Augustinian friars 14th-century Latin writers 14th-century German writers