Philippus Nutius or Nuyts (1597—1661) was a 17th-century Flemish Jesuit.

Life

Nutius was born in Antwerp on 8 March 1597, the son of the bookseller Martinus Nutius II and Anna Templaers.

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(Brussels, 1901), 15-16. He entered the

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in 1613, as did his friend and contemporary Jean-Charles della Faille, and went on to teach mathematics at Jesuit colleges in

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. Returning to the Low Countries, he undertook further study in theology and the scriptures and became chaplain to the governor of

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. In the 1630s he engaged in controversy with the Dutch Reformed preacher Jacobus Trigland. In 1652, he travelled to Stockholm in an attempt to convert

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, to Catholicism.C.J. Nuyts, ''Philippe Nutius à la cour de Suède'' (Brussels, 1856)
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on 17 April 1661.

References

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