Johannes Malderus (1563–1633) was the fifth

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and the founder of Malderus College at the University of Leuven. Ch. Piot, "Malderus (Jean)", ''

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vol. 13
(Brussels, 1895), 223-226.

Life

Malderus was born in

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on 14 August 1563, the son of Roger van Malderen and Elizabeth Walravens. His education was overseen by his uncle, Johannes van Malderen, a confidant of

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. Malderus studied philosophy at

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and theology in Leuven. By 1586 he was teaching philosophy at Pig College, Leuven and on 31 August 1594 he graduated doctor of theology. In 1596 he was appointed

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of Scholastic Theology by

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, and in 1598 president of the Pastoral Seminary in Leuven. On 11 February 1611 he was named bishop of Antwerp. He was consecrated on 7 August 1611 by

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. As bishop he was concerned for the reform of morals in his diocese, as well as with combating Calvinism, especially in those parts of his diocese, such as the deaneries of

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and

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, occupied by Dutch forces. In 1618 he consecrated the new Augustinian church in Antwerp, and in 1621 the new Jesuit church. On 26 July 1633 he made out his last will and testament, the main bequest being the founding of Malderus College in Leuven, to provide housing and scholarship to students of theology. He died in Antwerp on 21 October 1633.

Publications

* ''Geestelyck onderwys, tot versterking van den crancken in 't geloove'' (Antwerp, 1613). * ''De virtutibus theologicis, et justicia et religione: Commentario ad Secundam Secundae D. Thomae'' (Antwerp,

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, 1616)
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* ''Modus procedendi in curia ecclesiastica'' (Antwerp, 1619) * ''Anti-synodica, sive Animadversiones in Decreta Conventus Dordraceni, quam vacant Synodum Nationalem, de quinque doctrinae capitibus, inter Remonstrantes et Contraremonstrantes controversis'' (Antwerp, Plantin Press, 1620)
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* ''In primam secundae D. Thomae commentaria: de fine et beatitudine hominis; de virtutibus, vitiis et peccatis; de legibus; de gracia; de justificatione; de meritis'' (Antwerp, Plantin Press, 1623)
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* ''Tractatus de restrictionum mentalium abusu'' (Antwerp, Plantin Press, 1625)
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* ''Tractatus de sigillo confessionis sacramentalis'' (Antwerp, Plantin Press, 1626)
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* ''In Canticum Canticorum Salomonis commentarius'' (Antwerp, Plantin Press, 1628)
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Another later version of ''Brevis Commentarius in Canticum Canticorum'', to which is added a small treatise on a spiritual exercise by R.P. Joannes Evangelista, along with an assessment of such exercises by Joannes Malderus, including notes, can be consulted online vi
the KU Leuven Special Collections
(1652). * ''Meditationes theologices, universes theologies summam complectentes, tribus partibus distinctæ, et in 21 dies distributae'' (Antwerp, 1630) * ''In primam partem D. Thomae Commentarla, de Sancta Trinitate, creatione in genere, et Angelis'' (Antwerp, Plantin Press, 1634)
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References

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