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 who wrote in defence of the introduction of the

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in Germany, and produced the first printed edition of the ''

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''.

Life

Busaeus was born in

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on 14 April 1547. He entered the

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in 1563. He was a student at the University of Mainz 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)", ''Bio ...

, 1612) ** ''Den schadt der meditatien'', translated by

Cornelius Thielmans Cornelius Thielmans (c. 1570–1634) was a Franciscan hagiographer from the Habsburg Netherlands. Life Thielmans was born in Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all ...

(Antwerp,

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, 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 (attrib.), ''Historia de vitis Romanorum Pontificum'' (Mainz, Johannes Albinus, 1602). The first printed edition of the ''

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*

Johannes Trithemius Johannes Trithemius (; 1 February 1462 – 13 December 1516), born Johann Heidenberg, was a German Benedictine abbot and a polymath who was active in the German Renaissance as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist. He is consi ...

, ''Opera pia et spiritualia'' (Mainz, Johannes Albinus, 1604) �
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* ''Paralipomena opusculorum'' (Mainz, Balthasar Lipp, 1605). A compilation containing various works by

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and Johannes Trithemius
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References

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