Gerard van Rivieren, Latinized Gerardus Rivius (active 1592–1625) was a printer in the

Southern Netherlands The Southern Netherlands, also called the Catholic Netherlands, were the parts of the Low Countries belonging to the Holy Roman Empire which were at first largely controlled by Habsburg Spain (Spanish Netherlands, 1556–1714) and later by the A ...

. He was the publisher of

Martin Delrio Martin Anton Delrio SJ ( la, Martinus Antonius Delrio; es, Martín Antonio del Río; french: Martin-Antoine del Rio; 17 May 1551 – 19 October 1608) was a Dutch Jesuit theologian He studied at numerous institutions, receiving a master's ...

's famous witchcraft treatise ''Disquistiones Magicae'' and was at one time suspected of having printed '' Corona Regia'', a satire on

James I of England James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until h ...

that caused diplomatic ructions. His printer's mark was a winged horse, and his motto "Totum sic irrigat orbem".

Life

Rivius's earliest work was produced in Liège in 1592, where he continued to work until 1597. In 1598 he was using an Antwerp address, and from 1599 his shop was on the main market square in

Leuven Leuven (, ) or Louvain (, , ; german: link=no, Löwen ) is the capital and largest City status in Belgium, city of the Provinces of Belgium, province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located about east of Brussels. Th ...

. Rivius married Johanna Bogaers. Of their children

Johannes Rivius Johannes is a Medieval Latin form of the personal name that usually appears as " John" in English language contexts. It is a variant of the Greek and Classical Latin variants (Ιωάννης, '' Ioannes''), itself derived from the Hebrew name '' Y ...

(1599–1665) became an Augustinian canon and a lecturer at Leuven University, while

Petrus Rivius Petrus may refer to: People * Petrus (given name) * Petrus (surname) * Petrus Borel, pen name of Joseph-Pierre Borel d'Hauterive (1809–1859), French Romantic writer * Petrus Brovka, pen name of Pyotr Ustinovich Brovka (1905–1980), Soviet B ...

(1607–1666) became a Premonstratensian canon of

Tongerlo Abbey Tongerlo Abbey is a Premonstratensian monastery at Tongerlo in Westerlo near Antwerp, Belgium. History It was founded in 1128 in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, by Giselbert of Kasterlee, who not only gave the land, but also himself becam ...

Publications

*1598: Cornelis van Wytfliet, ''Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum'' *1599: Matthaeus Galenus, ''Commentarius in Pauli ad Hebraeos epistolam'' *1599–1600:

, ''Disquistiones Magicae'', 3 vols. *1604:

Nicolas de Montmorency Nicolas de Montmorency (ca. 1556–1617), count of Estaires, was an office holder and spiritual author in the Spanish Netherlands. Life Nicolas de Montmorency was born in by 1556, the third son of François de Montmorency, lord of Wastines, and H� ...

, ''Flos Campi'' *1605: Johannes Wamesius, ''Responsa sive consilia de jure pontificio'' *1614: Maximiliaan de Vriendt, ''Urbes Flandriæ et Brabantiæ'' *1620: Jacobus Jansenius, ''Oratio funebris in obitum D. Matthiae Hovii'' (a funeral oration for

Mathias Hovius Mathias Hovius (1542–1620), born Matthijs Van Hove, was the third Archbishop of Mechelen from 1596 to 1620. As Archbishop, Hovius presided over implementing the Catholic Reformation in the Spanish Netherlands. Early career Hovius was born in Me ...

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Johannes Molanus Joannes Molanus (1533–1585), often cited simply as Molanus, is the Latinized name of Jan Vermeulen or Van der Meulen, an influential Counter Reformation Catholic theologian of Louvain University, where he was Professor of Theology, and Rector ...

, ''Theologiae practicae compendium''

References

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