Talk:Johann von Staupitz

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I have a query about the use of the term "monk" to describe von Staupitz. If you check the hyperlink to Augustinians, you'll notice they don't use this term (although it could be applies very loosely. The use either "hermit" or more usually "friar". They specificaly don't use "monk" (I was taught by them). I made a change to the Luther page on this matter- but the use of "monk was defended by a (Lutheran?) academic. I am aware there is one, single "monastery" of the Augustinians - and that is in Brno (Bruin) in the Czech Republic. I know it has an "abbott" (Gregor Mendel was the abbott there once) and I suspect "monks" (I'm not sure of this). It is regarded as an international anomaly by the Augustinians. Can any wikipedian tell me why Luther or von Staupitz can sensibly be called "monks"? were they in some sort of exceptional Augustinian group? cheers Njamesdebien 04:55, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Needs lots of work
This article needs citations, and someone with better grammar than myself to go over it. I changed some grammatical errors, and removed a negative POV statement. I also added some needs citation tags. Vorput (talk) 00:20, 12 February 2009 (UTC)Vorput