A scholar of Greek and a Neo-Latin poet, he worked with the artist Albrecht Dürer.
[2] The 17th-century historian Thomas Dempster claimed Benedict to have been of Scottish origin,[3] presumably on the basis of his surname (actually taken from the Greek cheridon, meaning swallow), and possibly also because of his association with the so-called Scottish Abbey in Vienna (actually of Irish foundation).
[2] Chelidonius wrote Latin poetry on the passion of Christ and the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary to accompany woodcuts published by Albrecht Dürer in 1511.
[4] In 1519 he published an edition of the Libri quatuor sententiarum by Bandinus, a 12th-century theologian - an abridgement of Peter Lombard's Sentences which Chelidonius mistakenly thought to have been Peter Lombard's model.
[2] He was a close friend of the theologian Johann Eck, the opponent of Martin Luther, and the Dictionary of National Biography, following Dempster, ascribed to him a tract against Luther, Contra Lutherum apostatam.