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Jansen (Lat. Jansenius), Jacques

a Belgian theologian, was born at Amsterdam in 1547. He studied at Losuvain, was in 1575 first president of the newly-founded Augustinian college, in 1580 professor of theology, in 1614 dean, and died July 30, 1625. He wrote, Instructio Catholici Ecclesiastae: — Enarratio in Exodi 15 et Deuteron. 32: — Commentar. in Jobum: — In Nahum et Habacua Prophetas: — In Cantica Canticorum: — In Psalmos Davidis: — In Evangelium Johannis. See Andrea, Bibliotheca Belgica; Mirteus, Elogia Illustrium Belgii Scriptorum; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Lichtenberger, Encyclop. des Sciences Religienses, s.v. (B.P.)