Jansen or Jansenius, Cornelius (1)

a distinguished Belgian theologian, was born at Hulst in 1510. He studied theology at the University of Louvain, and acquired at the same time a thorough knowledge of Greek and Hebrew. In 1538 he went to Tongerloo as professor of theology, and became successively curate of St. Martin at Courtray in 1550, dean of the theological faculty of Louvain in 1562, and was soon after sent by Philip II to the Council of Trent. On his return to the Netherlands he was made bishop of Ghent in 1568. He died April 10, 1576. His works on Scripture enjoyed great reputation. He wrote Concordia Evaengelica et ejusdemn Concordice ratio (Louvain, 1549, 8vo): — Para phrasis in omnes Psalmos Davidicos (Louv. 1849, 4to) Commentarii in Concordiam ac totam historiame Evan, gelicame

(Louvain, 1572, 1577, and 1617, fol.; Lyon, 1597 and 1606, folio; often reprinted at Antwerp and Venice [this is his chief work]): Annotationes in librum Sapientice Salomonis (Antwerp, 1589, 4to): — Commentarii in Proverbia Salomonis et Ecclesiasticam, etc. See Simonis, Oratio infunere Jansenii; Gallia Christiana (vol. 6); Sander, De illustribus Gandis; Genebrardus, Chronicon; Foppens, Bibl. Belgica; Miraeus, De Scriptoribus Saeculi xvi; Pope-Blount, Censura Autorum; Fabricius, Hist. Biblioth. — Hoefer, Nouvelle Biog. Géneralé, 16, 344. (J. N. P.)