Career
In theology he was a pupil of Martin Polich of Mellerstadt and a Thomist. His family, whose name was Koch, came from Wimpfen on the Neckar, hence he was called Wimpina. He matriculated at the University of Leipzig (1479–1480) and remained there until 1505.
In 1481 he obtained the baccalaureate degree, and in 1485 was made magister.
One of his students at this time was Georg Simler, who went on to teach at the renowned Latin school in Pforzheim, where the twelve-year-old Philipp Melanchthon was one of Simler"s best students. In 1494, Wimpina was appointed rector at the Universitz of Leipzig, and in 1494–1495 dean
Having taken the theological course, he was made cursor in 1491 and sententiarius in 1494. In 1502 he received the degree of licentiate.
He was ordained at Würzburg, in 1495, as subdeacon, about 1500 as priest.
He received the degree of Doctor of Theology from Cardinal-Legate Peraudi at Leipzig, 1503. In 1505 Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg called Wimpina to Frankfort-on-the-Oder to organize the new university and to be its first rector. He was several times dean of the theological faculty.
In the dispute over indulgences Wimpina composed the theses which Johann Tetzel debated at Frankfurt, 20 January 1518.
He received canonries in the cathedrals of Brandenburg and Havelberg, and in 1530 took part in the Diet of Augsburg as theologian of the Elector Joachim. At the Diet Wimpina, with John Mensing, Redorfer, and Elgersma, drew up, against Luther"s seventeen Swabian articles, the "Christlichen Unterricht gegen die Bekanntnus M. Luthers".
Wimpina was commissioned to confute the "Confessio Augustana" (Augsburg Confession), and took part in the disputation about reunion. Afterwards, he accompanied the Elector to Cologne for the election of King Ferdinand.
He then retired to Baden.