 Eckhart joined the Dominicans at Erfurt, probably when he was about eighteen, and it is assumed he studied at Cologne.He may have also studied at the University of Paris, either before or after his time in Cologne.The first solid evidence we have for his life is when on 18 April 1294, as a "baccalaureus" (lecturer) on the "Sentences" of Peter Lombard, a post to which he had presumably been appointed in 1293, he preached the Easter Sermon (the "Sermo Paschalis") at the Dominican convent of St. Jacques in Paris.