Jacobus Zegers (died 14 January 1644) was an academic printer and bookseller in

Leuven Leuven (, ) or Louvain (, , ; german: link=no, Löwen ) is the capital and largest city of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located about east of Brussels. The municipality itself comprises the historic ...

, with many clients among the faculty of Leuven University. He was the printer of

Cornelius Jansen Cornelius Jansen (, ; Latinized name Cornelius Jansenius; also Corneille Jansen; 28 October 1585 – 6 May 1638) was the Dutch Catholic bishop of Ypres in Flanders and the father of a theological movement known as Jansenism. Biography He wa ...

's ''Augustinus'' (1640).

Life

Zegers settled in Leuven around 1631, married twice, and had a thriving business as an academic publisher and bookseller. His clients included Nicolaus Vernulaeus and

Diodorus Tuldenus Diodorus Tuldenus, born Theodoor van Tulden (died 16 November, 1645) was regius professor of Civil Law at the University of Leuven. Life Tuldenus was born in 's-Hertogenbosch at an unknown date in the late 16th century, the son of Nicolas Van T ...

Lucien Ceyssens Lucien or Lucianus Ceyssens OFM (1902–2001) was a twentieth-century ecclesiastical historian who specialised in the history of Jansenism. Life Ceyssens was born in Wijchmaal, Belgium, on 8 October 1902. In 1921 he entered the Order of St Franci ...

, O.F.M., "Zegers (Jacques)", ''

Biographie Nationale de Belgique The ''Biographie nationale de Belgique'' ( French; "National Biography of Belgium") is a biographical dictionary of Belgium. It was published by the Royal Academy of Belgium in 44 volumes between 1866 and 1986. A continuation series, entitled the ' ...

''
vol. 33
(Brussels, 1965), 783–786. Having printed Cornelius Jansen's massive three-volume ''Augustinus'' in 1640, the papal condemnation of the work and the ensuing controversies drove Zegers to the brink of bankruptcy and led to his untimely death. His widow continued the bookshop, with the support of

Jansenist Jansenism was an early modern theological movement within Catholicism, primarily active in the Kingdom of France, that emphasized original sin, human depravity, the necessity of divine grace, and predestination. It was declared a heresy by th ...

patrons.

Publications

* 1631: Cornelius Jansen, ''Notarum spongia'' * 1635: anonymous (Cornelius Jansen) ''Mars Gallicus'' * 1639: Cornelius Jansen, ''Tetrateuchus, sive Commentarius in sancta Iesu Christi evangelia'' * 1640: Nicolaus Vernulaeus, ''Virtutum augustissimae gentis austriacae. Libri tres'' * 1640: Cornelius Jansen, ''Augustinus'' * 1641: Cornelius Jansen, ''Pentateuchus: sive commentarius in quinque libros Moysis'' * 1641: Nicolaus Vernulaeus, ''Laudatio funebris principi Ferdinando''

References

Studies

* L. Ceyssens, "Jacobus Zegers, drukker te Leuven", ''Eigen Schoon en De Brabander'' 45 (1964): 204-216.

External links

Volume 1 of ''Augustinus''
on Google Books (from

Ghent University Library Ghent University Library ( nl, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent) is located in the city of Ghent, Belgium. It serves the university community of students and scholarly researchers. History After Ghent University was founded in 1817, books confiscated ...

).
Volume 2 of ''Augustinus''
on Google Books (from

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).
Volume 3 of ''Augustinus''
on Google Books (from Complutense University of Madrid).
Cornelius Jansen's ''Pentateuchus''
on Google Books (from the

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