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
Gregorian calendar in Germany, and produced the first printed edition of the Liber Pontificalis.
Life
Busaeus was born in
Nijmegen on 14 April 1547.[1] He entered the
Society of Jesus in 1563.[1] He was a student at the
University of Mainz in the 1560s, and continued to teach Theology there until his death.[2] He died in Mainz on 30 June 1611.[1]
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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Paralipomena opusculorum (Mainz, Balthasar Lipp, 1605). A compilation containing various works by
Peter of Blois and Johannes Trithemius.
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