 He went to Mainz with his father in 1650 and studied there from 1654, then from 1657 in Leuven, which was at the time part of the Spanish Netherlands, and from 1660 in the prestigious Catholic University of Ingolstadt in Bavaria, where he received his doctorate in 1661.In 1664/1665 he went to Vienna, where he was employed in the service of Bishop Christoph de Rojas y Spinola in Neustadt.From 1669 he was an administrator in the parish of Hartberg in Styria.