HELWICUS, TEUTONICUS. - Ascetical writer of the Dominican Order, who lived around the year 1300.
From the catalogue of Stams (Mon. O. P. hist., XVIII [Rome 1936], p. 65, no. 124) H. is known as the author of the treatise *De mandato maximo* or *De dilectione Dei et proximi*, whose manuscripts are noted by Grabmann (v. BIBLICA., pp. 577–80) and which, from 1480 until our own century, occupied a place among the spurious works in the editions of St. Thomas. The treatise substantially follows Thomistic doctrine; the author is a profound preacher with Eckhartian tendencies. Egenter treats this in his studies on the friendship of God. Grabmann inclines to the identification of Helvicus the Teuton with Helvicus “junior” of the noble family of Germar near Mühlhausen in Thuringia.
The catalogue of Stams also attributes to Helvicus the Teuton a *Liber exemplorum*, which was often confused with the *Liber de exemplis* of John of San Gimignano (v. ARCHIVIO. Fratrum Praedicatorum, 9 [1939], pp. 157–61).