Latomius, Jacobus

(Jaques Masson), a celebrated Roman Catholic theologian, was born at Cambron, in Hainault, about the middle of the 15th century, and was educated at the University of Paris. In 1500 he became a resident of Louvain, where he was made a professor of theology. He died in 1544. A zealous disciple of scholasticism. he ardently opposed the Reformation both by his pen and his tongue, and was engaged in an able controversy with Luther, who addressed to him Rationis Latomiance confutatio while a resident of the Wartburg (comp. Kostlin, Luther's Theologie, 2:55, 366). The Roman Catholics, of course, greatly loved Latomius, and he is spoken of as "vir multae eruditionis, pietatis, modestiae, trium linguarum peritissimus, haereticae pravitatis inquisitor." A collection of his works was made by his nephew, Jacobus Latomius, his successor at Louvain (died in 1596), and was published at Louvain in 1550, in folio, containing,

1. Articulorum doctrine Lutheri per theologos Lovanienses damnatorum ratio (1519 and 1521): —

2. Responsio nad libellum a Luthero emissum pro usdem articulis (1521): —

3. De primatu Pontificis adersus artinu Lutherun (1526; also reprinted in Roccaberti Biblioth. max. pontificia, Romans 1689, tom. 13): —

4. De variis quaestionum generibus quibus certat ecclesia intus et foris: —

5. De ecclesia et hunanae legis obligatione: —

6. De confessione secreta (1525): —

7. Ad helleborum J. (Ecolampadii responsio: —

8. Libellus de fide et operibus, de votis atque institutis monasticis: —

9. De trium linguarum et studii theologici ratione dialogi ii (1519, 4to): —

10. Apologia pro dialogis: —

11. Adversus librum Erasmi de sarcienda ecclesiae concordia: —

12. Confutationum adversus Guil. Tindalumn libri iii: —

13. De Alatrimonio: —

14. De quibusdam articulis in ecclesia controversis: —

15. Disputatio quodlibetica tribus quaestionibus absoluta:

(1.) In libellune de ecclesia, Philippians Melancthoni inscriptum;

(2.) Contra orationem factiosorum in Comitiis Ratisbonensibus habitam (1544, 8vo). — Herzog, Real-Encyklop. 19:777.