Johannes (or Jan) Busch (1399 – c. 1480) was a major reformer and provost of a community of Canons Regular. He was associated with the Brethren of the Common Life.
He was born in Zwolle. He spent most of the last 40 years of his life visiting and inspecting monasteries and convents, including Escherde (1441), Brunswick, and Wienhausen Abbey, then a Cistercian nunnery, where he removed the abbess in 1469. He also wrote some substantial surviving works, including a chronicle of Windesheim. He died at Hildesheim.
References
- Albert, Peter Paul (1910). "Hanover" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- Monasticon, Monastic Matrix, retrieved June 3, 2013
- Guldner, Benedict (1908). "Brunswick (Braunschweig)" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- Mecham, J. (2003), "Reading between the lines: compilation, variation, and the recovery of an authentic female voice in the Dornenkron prayer books from Wienhausen" (PDF), Journal of Medieval History, 29: 109–128, doi:10.1016/s0304-4181(03)00013-7, archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-02, retrieved June 3, 2013
- Webster, Douglas Raymund (1913). "Windesheim" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
Further reading
- "Johannes Busch († 1479)", Distinguished Canons, www.augustiniancanons.org, 27 March 2010, archived from the original on 4 November 2009, retrieved 23 September 2011
- Maring, John (1913). "Diocese of Hildesheim" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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