Johannes Busch
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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.<ref>Template:Cite CE1913</ref>
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),<ref>Template:Citation</ref> Brunswick,<ref>Template:Cite CE1913</ref> and Wienhausen Abbey, then a Cistercian nunnery, where he removed the abbess in 1469.<ref>Template:Citation</ref> He also wrote some substantial surviving works, including a chronicle of Windesheim.<ref>Template:Cite CE1913</ref> He died at Hildesheim.