 In this way he was brought into intimate relations with Ingolstadt, he received there the degree of Doctor of Laws, also succeeding Reuchlin in the important chair of philology (1522).His position in this stronghold of Catholicism soon became untenable, as he, like so many orthodox minds of the time who openly sympathized with the reforming activities of Martin Luther, was suspected of being a confirmed Lutheran.At this juncture he found friends ready to assist him, in Johann Faber and Johann Camers, who worked zealously for his appointment to the University of Vienna, and whose influence helped to give a more orthodox tone to his opinions on religious questions.