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DEDEROTH, IOHANNES. – An important figure in the monastic reform in Germany in the 15th century, he died as a victim of the plague on 6 February 1439. From his native city he was called Giovanni da Münden (in Westphalia). Nothing is known of his youth. He was a Benedictine monk at Reinhausen and Nordheim.
J. Busch always calls him Giovanni da Nordheim, whereas the monastic chronicler Enrico Bodo calls him Johann Dederodt (cf. Chron. Clusinum, op. cit. in the bibliography).
Through the prior Rembert da Wittenberg he came into contact with the monastic reform of Windesheim. On 21 July 1430 he was elected abbot of Clus and in 1433 abbot of the monastery of Bursfeld, which under his direction became the center of the reform and of the Congregation
(from V. JALABERT, LOUIS, Les pontifices manuscrits..., Paris 1937, far. 71) DEDICAZIONE, RITO della – D. of a church; the consecrating bishop, having blessed the water, prepares to sprinkle the building. Pontificale di Sens (2nd half and end of the 14th century) – Paris, National Library, ms. Ist. 662, f. 63.
of Bursfeld, which later brought together 90 convents.
BIBL.: Sources: J. Trithemius, Opera pia et spiritualia, Mainz 1604, p. 532; Chronicon monasterii Bergenais, in H. Heibom, Rerum Germanicarum, III, Helmstadt 1888, p. 307; Henricus Bodo, Chron. Clusinum, in G. Leibniz, Script. rerum Brunsvicesum, II, Hannover 1710, p. 350; Joh. Busch, De reformatione monasti, ibid., p. 841 ff. Studies: J. Evelt, Die Anfänge der Bursfelder Benediktiner Congregation, Münster 1865; J. Linneborn, I. D., in Zeitschr. I. vaterländ. Geschichte u. Altertumshunde Westfalens, 59 (1901), pp. 178–90; P. Volk, Zur Geschichte des Bursfelder Breviers, in Stud. Mitt. OSB, 46 (1928), p. 51 ff. Anselmo Musters
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“DEDEROTH, IOHANNES.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV (1950), p. 759. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/dederoth-iohannes.
