Johannes Busch

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.[1]

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),[2] Brunswick,[3] and Wienhausen Abbey, then a Cistercian nunnery, where he removed the abbess in 1469.[4] He also wrote some substantial surviving works, including a chronicle of Windesheim.[5] He died at Hildesheim.

References

1. Albert, Peter Paul (1910). "Hanover" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
2. Monasticon, Monastic Matrix, retrieved June 3, 2013
3. Guldner, Benedict (1908). "Brunswick (Braunschweig)" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
4. 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
5. 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.