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Schlitpacher, Johannes#

b. Schongau (Germany), 1403, d. Melk (Lower Austria), Oct. 24, 1482. Prior in Melk, advocate of humanism, inspection visits to 53 monasteries.


Works (manuscripts in the library of Melk Abbey): Postilla, 1440-1443 (comment on the Regula Benedicti); Praxis regularis vitae, 1446-1452; Summarium Bibliae, 1447; Visitationsbericht, 1452; Manuale Viaticum, 1471 (comment on the rules).

Literature#

M. Bruck, Die Melker Reform im Spiegel der Visitationen, doctoral thesis, Vienna, 1985; ditto, Professbuch des Klosters Melk, in: Melk in Geschichte und Gegenwart 4, 1985.