Education
University of Freiburg.
University of Freiburg.
He is best known for his compilation Margarita philosophica. In 1487 he became a student at the University of Freiburg, Baden, and received the degree of magister in 1489. During the years 1500-1502 he was prior at Klein-Basel.
From 1503 to shortly before his death he was prior at Freiburg Charterhouse.
He was also visitor for the Rhenish province of his order. He was a friend of the most celebrated Humanists of the era.
John Eck was his pupil. Reisch had a reputation for adaptability, and was regarded as an "oracle".
He was one of the most conspicuous of the intellectuals at the commencement of the new era who sought to prepare encyclopedic works of knowledge.