!!!Seyringer, Nikolaus

b. Matzen (Lower Austria), around 1360, 
d. Vienna, Dec. 25, 1425. Theologian. 1401 rector of the 
University of Vienna, abbot of Subiaco (1412), abbot of Melk (1418). 
Wrote the "Melker Observanz" and reformed among others the Lower 
Austrian Benedictine monasteries of Kleinmariazell and Seitenstetten 
as well as Kremsmuenster, Lambach, Garsten and Gleink (all Upper 
Austria) and the Monastery of the Scottish Benedictines in Vienna. 
With prior Petrus von Rosenheim he made Melk the centre of reforms in 
Austrian monasteries.



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