Nikolaus Seyringer

Nikolaus Seyringer (* around 1360 in Matzen ; † December 25, 1425 in Vienna ) was an Austrian Benedictine and mystic . He was rector of the University of Vienna , abbot of the Subiaco and Melk monasteries and initiator of the Melk reform .

Live and act

Nikolaus Seyringer was born in Matzen in the Weinviertel in Lower Austria . In 1401 he became rector of the University of Vienna . In 1412 he was elected abbot of the Italian Benedictine monastery in Subiaco , where the reforms of the Benedictine monasteries decided on at the Council of Constance were implemented.

In 1418 the ruling abbot of Melk was deposed and Nikolaus Seyringer was appointed his successor. Through the mediation of Albrecht V and Pope Martin V , he brought monks from Subiaco to Melk, from the old convent only the prior and nine other monks were allowed to stay in the monastery. This “Melker Reform” ensured strict adherence to the rules of the order and liturgical renewal. The Subiaco regulations were adapted to local conditions by Seyringer and, as Consuetudines Mellicenses, a binding norm of the reform that covered the entire Austrian and southern German area.

Nikolaus Seyringer died just seven years after the reform began at the age of around 65 in Vienna.

literature

• Freimut Löser:  Nikolaus Seyringer von Matzen. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 274 ( digitized version ).
• Reinhard Tenberg:  Nikolaus Seyringer. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 6, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-044-1 , Sp. 928.

Web links

• Entry on Nikolaus Seyringer in the database of the state's memory for the history of the state of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
• Monument to Seyringer in Matzen

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann III. Scarfing	Abbot of Melk Monastery 1418–1425	Bernhard Straubinger