John, an eminent and learned divine, professor in the university of Ingolstadt, memorable for the opposition he gave to Luther, Melanchthon, Caralofadius, and other leading Protestants in Germany. He wrote many polemical tracts; and among the rest, a Manual of Controversies, printed in 1535, in which he discourses upon most of the heads contested between the Protestants and Papists. He was a man of uncommon learning, parts, and zeal, and died in 1543.