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.{{Cite CE1913 |wstitle=Hanover |first=Peter Paul |last=Albert |volume=7}}

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),{{Citation |url=http://monasticmatrix.org/monasticon/?function=detail&id=1469 |title=Monasticon |publisher=Monastic Matrix |access-date=June 3, 2013}} Brunswick,{{Cite CE1913 |wstitle=Brunswick (Braunschweig) |first=Benedict |last=Guldner |volume=3}} and Wienhausen Abbey, then a Cistercian nunnery, where he removed the abbess in 1469.{{Citation|first=J. |last=Mecham |title=Reading between the lines: compilation, variation, and the recovery of an authentic female voice in the Dornenkron prayer books from Wienhausen |journal=Journal of Medieval History |volume=29 |year=2003 |pages=109–128 |url=http://his.library.nenu.edu.cn/upload/soft/haoli/113/254.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402211822/http://his.library.nenu.edu.cn/upload/soft/haoli/113/254.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-04-02 |access-date=June 3, 2013 |doi=10.1016/s0304-4181(03)00013-7 }} He also wrote some substantial surviving works, including a chronicle of Windesheim.{{Cite CE1913 |wstitle=Windesheim |first=Douglas Raymund |last=Webster}} He died at Hildesheim.