Johann Dietenberger was a German Catholic Scholastic theologian.
Education
Born at Frankfurt-am-Main, he was educated in his native city, and joined the Dominican Order. On 3 June 1511, he registered at Cologne as a theological student. Three years later, 23 September 1514, he was admitted to the licentiate, and the next year, after some time spent at Heidelberg and Mainz, received the doctor"s degree.
Career
Towards the end of 1517 Dietenberger was appointed Regens studiorum and interpreter of Thomas Aquinas at Trier, where he opened his lectures on 27 January 1518. In the meantime he had been elected (1516) prior of his convent at Frankfurt, and he retained this office until 1526, when he became prior at Koblenz. About the same time he received the appointment of general inquisitor for the Dioceses of Mainz and Cologne.
His last years, from 1532, were devoted to teaching theology and exegesis in the Academy of Mainz.
He died at Mainz.