Andreas Eudaemon-Joannis (1566–1625)
[ Charles E. O'Neill, ''Diccionario histórico de la Compañía de Jesús: biográfico-temático''
p. 1343]
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was a Greek
Jesuit
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, natural philosopher and controversialist. He was sometimes known as Cydonius.
Life
He entered the Society of Jesus in 1581, in Italy.
[ Stillman Drake, ''Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography'' (2003), p. 447]
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He was at the
Collegio Romano
The Roman College (, ) was a school established by St. Ignatius of Loyola in 1551, just 11 years after he founded the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). It quickly grew to include classes from elementary school through university level and moved to seve ...
, where in 1597–8 he lectured on the ''Physics'' and other works of
Aristotle
Aristotle (; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosophy, Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, a ...
; he wrote himself on
projectile motion. He was at
Padua
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from 1601,
where he discussed the "ship's mast experiment" (see
Galileo's ship) with
Galileo Galilei
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei ( , , ) or mononymously as Galileo, was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a poly ...
. This meeting was before 1606.
Eudaemon-Joannis took a deathbed statement from Bellarmine in 1621. He became rector of the
Greek College, Rome in 1622.
He was theologian and advisor to
Cardinal Francesco Barberini who went on a mission as legate to Paris in 1624/5. An unpopular insistence on the formalities was attributed to him, at a time of tension between the Jesuits and the French Catholic Church. He died in Rome, on 24 December 1625.
Works
He defended
Robert Bellarmine
Robert Bellarmine (; ; 4 October 1542 – 17 September 1621) was an Italian Jesuit and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was canonized a saint in 1930 and named Doctor of the Church, one of only 37. He was one of the most important figure ...
, in particular, against English attacks over the
allegiance oath of James I. One work was directed against
Edward Coke
Sir Edward Coke ( , formerly ; 1 February 1552 – 3 September 1634) was an English barrister, judge, and politician. He is often considered the greatest jurist of the Elizabethan era, Elizabethan and Jacobean era, Jacobean eras.
Born into a ...
, continuing a defence of
Henry Garnet. The pamphlet war drew in
Isaac Casaubon
Isaac Casaubon (; ; 18 February 1559 – 1 July 1614) was a classical scholar and philologist, first in France and then later in England.
His son Méric Casaubon was also a classical scholar.
Life Early life
He was born in Geneva to two F ...
, and Eudaemon-Joannis was attacked by name by
John Prideaux.
Eudaemon-Joannis was sometimes considered to be a
pseudonym
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in this debate, for example for
Scioppius; or for the French Jesuit
Jean L'Heureux, something repeated in the ''Criminal Trials'' of
David Jardine in the 19th century. A 1625 work, the ''Admonitio'' attacking
Louis XIII
Louis XIII (; sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown.
...
, that appeared under the pseudonym G.G.R., has been attributed both to Eudaemon-Joannis and to
Jacob Keller.
Cardinal Richelieu
Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu (9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), commonly known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a Catholic Church in France, French Catholic prelate and statesman who had an outsized influence in civil and religi ...
believed Eudaemon-Joannis to be the author;
Carolus Scribani was another suspect, and
François Garasse was questioned, as part of the struggle of
Gallicanism
Gallicanism is the belief that popular secular authority—often represented by the monarch's or the state's authority—over the Catholic Church is comparable to that of the pope. Gallicanism is a rejection of ultramontanism; it has something ...
against the Jesuits.
*''Adversus Roberti Abb. Oxoniensis de Antichristo sophismata'' (1609)
*''Ad actionem proditoriam Edouardi Coqui, apologia pro R.P. Henrico Garneto'' (1610)
*''Confutatio Anti-Cotoni'' (1611)
*''Parallelus Torti ac Tortoris'' (1611), against
Lancelot Andrewes on behalf of Bellarmine.
[ Charles Howard McIlwain, ''The Political Works of James I'' (2002), p. lxvi]
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*''Castigatio Apocalypsis apocalypeos Th. Breghtmanni'' (1611); against
Thomas Brightman.
*''Responsio ad epistolam Isaaci Casauboni''; attack on Casaubon and reply to his letter to
Fronto Ducaeus.
It alleged Casaubon wrote on behalf of James I for money.
*''Epistola monitoria, ad Ioannem Barclaium'' (1613); against
John Barclay, who had written in defence of his father
William Barclay's ''De potestate papae''.
*''Epistola ad amicum Gallum super dissertatione politica Leidhresseri'' (1613); a reply to
Desiderius Heraldus (Didier Hérault or Hérauld) writing as David Leidhresserus.
[Jean Baptiste Joseph Boulliot, ''Biographie ardennaise'' Volume 2 (1830), p. 40]
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*''Refutatio exercitationum Isaaci Casauboni libris duobus comprehensa'' (1617)
*''Defensio annalium ecclesiasticorum Caesaris Baronii'' (1617)
*''Admonitio ad lectores librorum M. Antonii de dominis'' (1619)
*''Excerpta ex litteris de pio obitu Rob. cardinalis Bellarmini'' (1621)
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1566 births
1625 deaths
Greek Jesuits
People from Chania