Johann Hiltalinger

John Hiltalingen of Basel (* 1315, 1322 or 1330 in Basel, †, buried before October 10, 1392 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was Master and Provincial of the Order of Augustinian Hermits. In the Western Schism he joined Pope Clement VII and was General of the Order of Avignon fraction of the Augustinian Order, and later Bishop of Lombez.

Life and work

Hiltalingen studied in Avignon in 1357 and taught as a lecturer at the Studium Generale of the Augustinians in Strasbourg. 1371 he received his doctorate in Paris for the Master of Divinity. He held various management positions of his order, was also expert in the process of canonization of Birgitta of Sweden. On March 10, 1389, he was appointed Bishop of Lombez in Toulouse. Since, he was a pastor and officials to Avignon party in the Western Schism, is his literary work only sparsely handed and have never been printed. Philosophy and the history of theology, it is interesting because it is characterized by unusually numerous and accurate citations and references, and because he was a leading representative of the German Augustinian theology, which had an influence on Martin Luther.

He repeatedly cited an otherwise unknown opinion of the future Pope Benedict XII. from the Avignon phase of the trial against Meister Eckhart, in which he defends Eckhart's teachings.

It is believed that he also has the anonymous traditional German writings of the master of the Study Group and the ' Treatise of Love ' written.