Philippus Nutius
Philippus NutiusorNuyts(1597—1661) was a 17th-century Flemish Jesuit.
Life
[edit]Nutius was born in Antwerp on 8 March 1597, the son of the booksellerMartinus Nutius IIand Anna Templaers.[1]He entered theSociety of Jesusin 1613, as did his friend and contemporaryJean-Charles della Faille,and went on to teach mathematics at Jesuit colleges inPragueandMadrid.Returning to the Low Countries, he undertook further study in theology and the scriptures and became chaplain to the governor ofAntwerp Citadel.In the 1630s he engaged in controversy with the Dutch Reformed preacherJacobus Trigland.[1]In 1652, he travelled to Stockholm in an attempt to convertChristina, Queen of Sweden,to Catholicism.[2]He died inMechelenon 17 April 1661.[1]
References
[edit]- ^abcÉmile Van Arenbergh,"Nutius (Philippe)",Biographie Nationale de Belgique,vol. 16(Brussels, 1901), 15-16.
- ^C.J. Nuyts,Philippe Nutius à la cour de Suède(Brussels, 1856).On Google Books