After studying at a Jesuit college in Westphalia, he left for Spain on 14 April 1735, and embarked for the Americas from El Puerto de Santa María on 22 November of the same year.
There were more than forty Jesuits aboard the ship with him, including Andrés Xavier García and Jacobo Sedelmayr.
On 18 February 1736, they were shipwrecked on the island of San Juan de Ulúa; there were no casualties, and the Jesuits continued on to Mexico City.
[3] He was a controversial figure at Batuc as well, and the local teniente político submitted complaints against him to Governor Juan Claudio de Pineda [es].
[1] In July 1767, Spanish soldiers arrived to carry out the orders of Charles III by expelling the Jesuits from Mexico.