Joannes Busaeus or Johannes Busius (1547–1611), also known as Jan Buys (Dutch) and Jean Busée (French), was a Catholic theologian from the
Habsburg Netherlands
Habsburg Netherlands was the Renaissance period fiefs in the Low Countries held by the Holy Roman Empire's House of Habsburg. The rule began in 1482, when the last Valois-Burgundy ruler of the Netherlands, Mary, wife of Maximilian I of Austr ...
who wrote in defence of the introduction of the
Gregorian calendar
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in Germany, and produced the first printed edition of the ''
Liber Pontificalis''.
Life
Busaeus was born in
Nijmegen on 14 April 1547.
He entered the
Society of Jesus
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in 1563.
[ He was a student at the ]University of Mainz
The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (german: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. With approximately 32,000 stud ...
in the 1560s, and continued to teach Theology there until his death.[John M. Frymire, ''The Primacy of the Postils'' (Leiden and Boston, 2010), p. 474.] He died in Mainz on 30 June 1611.[
]
Works
;As author
* ''Pro calendario gregoriano disputatio apologetica'' (Mainz, Gaspar Behem, 1585)
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* ''Rosarii hyperapistes, hoc est, Depulsio levissimarum cavillationum et nugarum, quibus calvinianae theologiae studiosus nescio quis apodixin theologicam ritu precandi rosarium B. Virg. Mariae'' (Würzburg, Henricus Aquensis, 1588)
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* ''Enchiridion piarum meditationum'' (Mainz, Balthasar Lipp, 1606)
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** ''Manuel contenant des dévotes méditations'' (Douai, Jan Bogard Jean Bogard (died around 1634) was a printer in Leuven and Douai in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Life
Bogard was born in Leuven around the mid-16th century and from 1564 was working as a printer in the city. E.-H.-J. Reusens, "Bogard (Jean)", ''Bi ...
, 1612)
** ''Den schadt der meditatien'', translated by Cornelius Thielmans (Antwerp, Willem Lesteens
Guiliam or Willem Lesteens (1590–1661), Latinized Gulielmus Lesteenius, was a printer and publisher in the city of Antwerp, in the Spanish Netherlands.
Life
Lesteens was born in Antwerp on 19 April 1590, the son of Gaspard Lesteens and Cather ...
, 1628)
* ''Παναριον, hoc est, Arca medica'' (Mainz, Johannes Albinus, 1608)
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* ''Viridarium christianarum virtutum'' (Mainz, Johannes Albinus, 1610)
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* ''De Statibus hominum'' (Mainz, 1613). Published posthumously
1614 Lyon edition available on Google Books
;As editor
* Anastasius Bibliothecarius
Anastasius Bibliothecarius or Anastasius the Librarian (c. 810 – c. 878) was ''bibliothecarius'' (literally "librarian") and chief archivist of the Church of Rome and also briefly a claimant to the papacy.
Early life
He was a nephew of Bis ...
(attrib.), ''Historia de vitis Romanorum Pontificum'' (Mainz, Johannes Albinus, 1602). The first printed edition of the '' Liber Pontificalis''
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* Johannes Trithemius, ''Opera pia et spiritualia'' (Mainz, Johannes Albinus, 1604)
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* ''Paralipomena opusculorum'' (Mainz, Balthasar Lipp, 1605). A compilation containing various works by Peter of Blois
Peter of Blois ( la, Petrus Blesensis; French: ''Pierre de Blois''; ) was a French cleric, theologian, poet and diplomat. He is particularly noted for his corpus of Latin letters.
Early life and education
Peter of Blois was born about 1130. Ear ...
and Johannes Trithemius
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References
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1547 births
1611 deaths
People from Nijmegen
17th-century Dutch Jesuits
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz alumni
Academic staff of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
16th-century Dutch Jesuits