Editing Jacob Sprenger (section)

==The Dominican Order==
===Novice===
Sprenger was admitted as a novice in the [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] house of Rheinfelden in 1452 and became a zealous reformer. He founded an association of the [[Confraternity of the Holy Rosary]] in [[Strasbourg]] in 1474. 

===Theologian===
He became a Master of Theology and then in 1480 Dean of the Faculty of Theology at the [[University of Cologne]] and was a popular lecturer.<ref name=Rothman>[https://books.google.com/books Rothman, David J., Marcus, Steven and Kiceluk, Stephanie A., ''Medicine and Western Civilization'', Rutgers University Press, 1995] {{ISBN|9780813521909}}</ref>

===Inquisitor===
In 1481 he was appointed as an [[Inquisitor]] for the Provinces of [[Mainz]], [[Trier]] and [[Cologne]], a post that demanded constant traveling through an extensive district.<ref>A work from 1719 reports that Sprenger was known in the Dominican house for "his burning and fearless zeal for the old faith, his vigilance, his constancy, his singleness and patience in correcting novel abuses and errors."{{citation needed|date=March 2016}}</ref>