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

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, with many clients among the faculty of

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. 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 ...

'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 Nicolaus Vernulaeus (1583–1649) was a professor at the University of Leuven and an important Neo-Latin playwright. Life Nicolas de Vernulz (later Latinized Nicolaus Vernulaeus) was born at Robelmont, near Virton in the Duchy of Luxembourg, o ...

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 Tu ...

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

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''
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 a 17th- and 18th-century theological movement within Roman Catholicism, primarily active in France, which arose as an attempt to reconcile the theological concepts of free will and divine grace in response to certain development ...

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

).
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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). {{DEFAULTSORT:Zegers, Jacobus Year of birth unknown 1644 deaths Scientists from Leuven 17th-century printers Book publishers (people) from the Spanish Netherlands Year of birth uncertain