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.