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Cornelius Jansen
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Bishop and theologian (1585-1638)
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Cornelius Jansen, also known as Cornelius Otto Jansenius, was a theologian, university teacher, Catholic priest, and bishop from the Southern Netherlands. Born in Acquoy in 1585, he was educated at the Old University of Leuven and subsequently worked for universities in Leuven. A member of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri, he worked in the field of philosophy and spoke Latin.
Jansen is the author of the work *Predestination of Humans*. He died in Ypres on May 6, 1638, from the plague. His life and work have been described in sources including the *Encyclopædia Britannica* 11th edition and the *Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie*.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Predestination of Humans
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,794x
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Key facts
- Church
- Catholic Church
- Diocese
- Diocese of Ypres
- Predecessor
- Georges Chamberlain
- Successor
- Josse Bouckaert
- Born
- ( 1585-10-28 ) 28 October 1585 , Acquoy , County of Holland , Dutch Republic
- Died
- 6 May 1638 (1638-05-06) (aged 52) , Ypres , Spanish Netherlands
- Education
- University of Leuven
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Encyclopedic overview
Cornelius Jansen (/ˈdʒænsən/; Dutch: [ˈjɑnsə(n)]; Latinized name Cornelius Jansenius; also Corneille Jansen; 28 October 1585 – 6 May 1638) was the Dutch Catholic bishop of Ypres in Flanders and the father of a theological movement known as Jansenism.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cornelius Jansen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.