Johannes von Wildeshausen
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Johannes von Wildeshausen (also called Johannes Teutonicus) (born around 1180 in Wildeshausen
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, died 4 November 1252 in Strasbourg
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) was the fourth master general of the Dominican order
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.

He joined the Dominican Order in Bologna
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. From 1224 he accompanied the papal legate
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s in Germany
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. He preached crusade in South Germany in 1224, and mediated in the conflict between the Stedingern and the Archbishop of Bremen Gerhard/Gebhard II, Edelherr zur Lippe.

He was Provincial in Hungary
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 from 1231 to 1233; bishop of Đakovo in Croatia
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 from 1233 to 1237. He went to 1237 as an envoy of Pope Gregory IX to the Bulgarian prince Asen II, and Provincial of Lombardy
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 from 1238 to 1240. On 1241 were selected Johannes in Paris
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 to the medal master. He was named Frater more magister episcopus. He preached in five languages, and had good relations with the papal Curia. In 1233 Johannes was appointed Bishop of Kaloczs, to replace a bishop that cooperated with the Bogomil heretics. Unable to control the hard crusades fought against the Bosnian heretics after 1235, he begged the Pope to relieve him of his duty. In 1237 he

Under his lead, the general chapters decided two important changes of the constitutions: The general chapters would take place no longer only alternating between Bologna and Paris, but by agreement, so 1245 in Cologne
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, 1247 in Montpellier
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, 1249 in Trier
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, 1250 in London
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. The university monopoly of Paris was broken and from 1248 new general studies in Montpellier, Bologna, Cologne and Oxford
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 were established.

Johannes provided for the standardization of the Dominican liturgy
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; and gave to the order a firmer structure. He particularly promoted the missions and study.

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