ABSTRACT
His life and work are permeated by the Word of God; as the epitaph on his grave at Salzburg testifies, ‘he’s held to whatever the sacred page teaches’. This biblical scholar is the key figure in the transition from the reforms of the religious Orders in the fifteenth century to the Reformation of the early sixteenth century. As the leader of the reformed (observant) Augustinian Order, he exercised enormous influence on the reform of piety through preaching and writing, a task to which this Order was committed at that time. Plate 1 shows Staupitz in his Abbot’s robes; he was Abbot of St Peter’s, Salzburg from 1522 to 1524.
