Heinrich Blyssen (Latin Henricus Blissemius, Czech Jindřich Blyssem) (1526 – April 24, 1586) was a German

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controversialist against the Hussites of

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Life

He was born at

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. He entered the

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, and Ignatius Loyola sent him with eleven other Jesuits to

to combat heresy there, and to sustain a public discussion with the disciples of

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and Hus. In 1556 he became professor of theology and Hebrew at the Jesuit college at Prague. To continue the work of public lectures which he began, he gave a Sunday course of polemics to the clergy and laity. Appointed rector of the college at

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in 1561, he was transferred in 1570 to the college at

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, where he continued with lectures on theology. He died at Graz.

Works

Maintaining his controversy with the heretics of Bohemia, he published a collection of theses: ''De ciborum delectu atque jejunio'' (Prague 1559). Attacked by

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on his doctrine concerning the Church, he published a defense of his thesis as ''Defensio assertionum theologicarum de verâ et sacrosanctâ Christi, quam habet in terris, Ecclesiâ militante'' (

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, 1577). His last and major work, ''De uno geminoque sacrae eucharistiae synaxeos salubriter percipiendae ritu ac usu'', was published (Ingolstadt, 1585) when he was provincial of Austria.

References

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