He joined the Augustinian hermits and served as the master provincial of Germany from 1296 to 1299.
Around 1300, he began to study theology at the University of Paris, where he obtained his master's degree in 1305.
[1][2] He was one of the regent masters who advised King Philip IV of France regarding the case against the Templars in 1308 and participated in the condemnation of Marguerite Porete in 1310.
[2] From about 1315, he taught theology at the monastery of Saint Augustine, the studium generale of his order in Erfurt.
They are preserved in a large number of manuscripts, were early translated into vernacular languages and were printed before 1500.