Life
The son of Konrad Rieger, a priest, was educated in Lindau and studied in Freiburg im Breisgau, Ingolstadt, Tübingen and Basel, at Johannes Eck. In 1519, he was ordained a priest in Konstanz, and in 1520, he became preacher in Augsburg.
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