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

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theologian who became Bishop of Lombez.

Life

Born at

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, he entered the Augustinian order and received the degree of

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at the

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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

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, he sided with

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, 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 Freiburg im Breisgau (; abbreviated as Freiburg i. Br. or Freiburg i. B.; Low Alemannic: ''Friburg im Brisgau''), commonly referred to as Freiburg, is an independent city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. With a population of about 230,000 (as o ...

for the curia of the

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. 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 Gregory of Rimini (c. 1300 – November 1358), also called Gregorius de Arimino or Ariminensis, was one of the great scholastic philosophers and theologians of the Middle Ages. He was the first scholastic writer to unite the Oxonian and Parisian ...

, Alfonsus Vargas, John Klenkok, and Hugolino of Orvieto, with mention also of Bartholomew of Urbino.

References

External links

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