Career
Foreign a time he taught at Vienna. In his old age, 1545-1549, he lived in the house of Wolfgang Salm, Bishop of Passau. His portrait by Wolf Huber (c 1485-1553), executed about 1540, when he was about seventy years old, is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
His main geographical treatise, Schondia, was published under the title Quae intus continentur Syria, Palestina, Arabia, Aegyptus, Schondia, Holmiae.. at Strasbourg in 1532.