Background
Vehe was born in Biberach (now part of Heilbronn, near Bad Wimpfen).
Vehe was born in Biberach (now part of Heilbronn, near Bad Wimpfen).
In 1515 he was appointed regent of the Dominican house of studies at Heidelberg. Later Cardinal Albert of Mainz chose him as theologian and put him in charge of the church of Halle, Saxony.
He joined the Dominicans in Wimpfen and was sent to Heidelberg in 1506, where he taught in 1512 and received a doctorate in theology in 1513. He was summoned to Augsburg in 1530 to refute the Lutheran Confession of Faith and took a prominent part in a debate against the Lutherans in 1534 in Leipzig. He was called to the bishopric of Halberstadt on February 21, 1539.
He died in Halle in April 1539.
