Luis de Lossada (1681–1748) was a Spanish

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theologian and philosophical writer. Lossada was born at Quiroga, Galicia, Spain. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1698, and, after completing his studies, taught theology, Scripture, and philosophy at Salamanca, where he died.

Works

His first publication was the "Vida y virtudes del P.G. Dutari" (1720). One year later he published his "Institutiones dialecticae", commonly styled "Summulae". This book was an introduction to his "Cursus philosophici Regalis Collegii Salmanticensis, in tres partes divisus", which he published in 1724 (last edition, 10 vols., Barcelona, 1883). It discusses all the branches of philosophy. Lossada generally follows

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, though in some points he departs from his master. Urráburu was an admirer of Lossada's "egregium et gravissimum cursum" (Institutiones philosophicae, I, 8777), and followed him very closely. Lossada took part in the discussion on the descent of

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, and his learned writings on this point were published by the

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in their '' Acta Sanctorum'' of 1755. The satirical vein in Lossada's works led him to be credited with

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's novel ''Fray Gerundio de Campazas''. Lossada and Isla wrote together the amusingly absurd work ''La juventúd triunfante''.

References

;Attribution * Paul Richard Blum: "Aufklärung und Scholastik - Benito Fejó emphiehlt Luis de Losada", in Idem: ''Philosophenphilosophie und Schulphilosophie'', Stuttgart: Steiner, 1998, pp. 193-209. The entry cites: **DE YEDRA, Breve noticia de la vida del P.L. de Lossada (Salamanca, 1745); **FITA, Galeria de Jesuitas ilustres (Madrid, 1880); **RUIZ, Ensayos criticos (Lugo, 1868), 366; **

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, Bibliothèque de la compagnie de Jesus; **AMADO, Historia de la educacion y de la pedagogia (Barcelona, 1911). {{DEFAULTSORT:Lossada, Luis De 1681 births 1748 deaths People from Asturias 18th-century Spanish Jesuits 18th-century Spanish Roman Catholic theologians 18th-century Spanish male writers Jesuit theologians