Inchofer, Melchior

Inchofer, Melchior a German Jesuit, was born at Vienna or at GCim (Hungary) in 1584. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1607, and studied philosophy, mathematics, and theology at Messina, where he afterwards instructed. In 1636 he went to Rome, and became a member of the Congregation of the Index and of the Holy Office, but was called from thence to the college at Macerata in 1646. He died in 1648 at Milan. His principal works are Epistolce B. Marice ad Messanenses veritas vizdicata (1629): — Historia sacrce Latiziitatis (1636): — Annales ecclesiastici regni Hungarice (1644) (incomplete). Under the pseudonyme of Eugenius Lavande Ninevensis he defended his order and its educational system against the attacks of Scioppius (Schopp), in refutation of whom he wrote several pamphlets (16381641). He was also believed to be the author of the Monarchia Solipsorumn (Venice, 1652; French translation, Amst. 1722, 12mo); but Oudin proved, in an edition of Niceron, that this work is the production of count Scotti of Piacema, who entered the order in 1616, but became discontented, and retired from it in 1645. See Niceron, Mem pour servir, etc., 35, 322-346; 39, 165-280; Herzog, Real-Encyklop. 6, 648; Bayle, Hist. Dict. 3:563 sq.; Theol. Univ. Lex. 1, 405.