Jacobus Jansenius, alternatively Jansonius or Janssoon (1547–1625) was a Dutch theologian who served as
rector
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of
Leuven University
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.
Life
Jansenius was born in
Amsterdam
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in early September 1547.
[ A.J. van der Aa (ed.), ''Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden'', vol. 9 (Haarlem, 1867) 103-104.] He studied Philosophy and Theology at the University of Leuven, graduating
Licentiate of Sacred Theology
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in May 1575. In 1580 he became an
ordinary professor
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of Theology and a
canon
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St. Peter's Church, Leuven
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. In 1589 he was appointed president of
Pope's College and rector of the university. On 29 November 1598 he succeeded
Thomas Stapleton as Regius Professor of Sacred Scripture. On 17 October 1614 he became dean of St Peter's.
Jansenius died on 30 July 1625 and was buried in Pope's College chapel.
Works
* ''Catholici Ecclesiastae instructio'' (Leuven, 1585)
**Reissued from the same press, 1594.
* ''In sacrum Missae Canonem'' (Leuven,
Joannes Masius Jan Maes or Joannes Masius (active 1566–1615) was a printer and bookseller in the university town of Leuven in the Habsburg Netherlands.
Career
Masius, a native of Leuven, moved to Antwerp to work for Christopher Plantin at the Plantin Press in 1 ...
, 1586)
* ''Oratio funebris in obitum eximii D. Henrici Gravii'' (Leuven, 1591)
* ''In Canticum Canticorum Salomonis Commentarius'' (Leuven, Joannes Masius and Philip Zangrius, 1596)
* ''In Psalterium, et Cantica, quibus per horas Canonicas Romana utitur Ecclesia expositio'' (Leuven, Joannes Masius and Philip Zangrius 1597)
* ''Vitta coccinea, sive enarratio Dominicae Passionis, ex verbis utriusque Testamenti, aliisque contexta'' (Leuven, 1600)
* ''Liturgica, sive de sacrificiis materiati altaris, libri quatuor'' (Leuven, Joannes Masius 1604)
* ''t'Proces van Melchisedech, bij aenspraecke, antwoorde, replycke, ende duplycke, gheinstrueert, ghefurnieurt, ende in staet ghestelt'' (Leuven,
Gerard Rivius
Gerard van Rivieren, Latinized Gerardus Rivius (active 1592–1625) was a printer in the Southern Netherlands. He was the publisher of Martin Delrio's famous witchcraft treatise ''Disquistiones Magicae'' and was at one time suspected of having prin ...
, 1618)
* ''Oratio funebris in obitum D. Matthiae Hovii'' (Leuven, Gerard Rivius, 1620)
* ''In Propheticum librum Job enarratio'' (Leuven, Hendrik Hastens and Petrus Zangrius, 1623)
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* ''Offencium decem Evangelicarum virtutum, seu beneplacitorum B. Mariae, ad formam Romani Breviarii accommodatum'' (Antwerp, 1626)
* ''In Evangelium S. Joannis expositio'' (Leuven, 1630)
References
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1547 births
1625 deaths
Old University of Leuven alumni
Academic staff of the Old University of Leuven