Nieremberg(Ius), John Eusebius of

Nieremberg(ius), John Eusebius Of, a learned Spanish Jesuit, was born at Madrid about 1590. He studied law at the University of Salamanca, but afterwards became a Jesuit. He was then sent by the order on a mission to some part of Castile, and on his return to Madrid became professor in the college. In 1642 he gave up teaching in consequence of ill-health, and died April 7,1658. He wrote Obras y dias, manual de seio res yprincipes (Madrid, 1628,1641 4to): — Sigalion, sivw . de sapientia mythica, lib. viii (ibid. 1629, 8vo): — Vida d S. Ignacio (ibid. 1631, 8vo), often reprinted: — De ado. ratione in spiritu et veritate, lib. iv (Antwerp, 1631):De arte voluntatis, lib. vi (Lyons, 1631, 8vo; transl. into French by L. Videl [Paris, 1657, 4to]): — Vida divina 3 camino real para la perfeccion (Madrid, 1633; transl. into Latin by Martin Sibenius): — Practica del catecisns Romano y doctrina Christiana (ibid. 1640; transL into Italian);-Theopoliticus, sive brevis elucidatio et rationale divinorum

operum atque providentice humane (Antwerp, 1641, 8vo): — Prodigio del amor divino y fineza de Dios con los hombres (Madrid, 1641, 4to): — Stromata Sacrce Scripture (Lyons, 1642, fol.): — Corona virtuoso y virtud coronata, sive de virtutibus inprincipe requisitis (Madrid, 1643i 4to): — De la devocion y patrocinio de S. Miguel, protector de Espana (ibid. 1643, 4to): — Doctrinac ascetics (Lyons, 1643, fol.): — Causa y remedio de los males publicos (Madrid, 1642, 8vo): — La curiosafilosofia y tesoiro de maravillas de la naturaleza (ibid. 1643, 4to): — Claros varones de lae compania de Jesus (ibid. 1643, 4 vols. fol.; Alonso de Andrada added 2 vols. to -it in 1666): — Gloria de S. Ignacio y de S. Francisco Xavier (ibid. 1645, fol):: Tratado de la constancia en la virtud (ibid. 1647, 4to): — pistolk (ibid. 1649): — Imitacion de Christo de Thomas de Kempis (Antwerp, 1650, 8vo): — Vida del B. Francisco de Borja, an introduction to the works of that writer which he published (Madrid, 1651, 3 vols. fol.): — De immaculata conceptione Virginis Marie (Valence, 1653, 4to): — Diferencia de la temporal y eterno (Madrid, 1654, 24mo; transl. into Arabic by P. Fromage): — Trophace Mariana, lib. vi (Antwerp, 1655, fol.): — Cielo estellado de Maria (Madrid, 1655, fol.): — Exceptiones concilii Tridentinipro omnimoda puritate Deiparce expensi (Antwerp, 1656, 8vo), etc. See Sotwell, Bibl. Script. soc. Jesu; Antonio, Nova Bibl. Hispana, 1:685; Moreri, Grand Dict. Hist.; Franckenau, Bibl. Hispana, p. 319; Cuvier, Hist. des Sciences Naturelles, vol. ii; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, 38:59 sq. (J. N. P.)