CORNELIUS JANSEN
  Bishop of Ypres
1585-1638
 

Saint-Cyran Duvergier

 Cornelius Jansen,  Bishop of Ypres

JANSEN, Cornelius Otto (1585–1638) (Jansenius), the author of the Augustinus. (He is to be distinguished from his uncle, Cornelius Jansen the Elder (1510–76), who was Bishop of Ghent from 1564 - confirmed by Pius V, 1568). After two years in the Collège du Faucon at Louvain, he migrated in 1604 to Paris. Here he met Saint-Cyran, with whom, at Bayonne and Champré, he spent the years 1612–17 in unremitting study.

In these years, as his later correspondence with Saint-Cyran reveals, he conceived an elaborate plan of concerted action against the theologians of the Counter-Reformation.

In 1617 he became the director of a newly founded college at Louvain, and in 1626–7 defended at Madrid the cause of the University of Louvain against the aspersions of the Jesuits. In 1628 he began to write the Augustinus, for which purpose he read the whole of St Augustine’s writings ten times and the anti-Pelagian writings thirty; but it was not published till 1640, after his death. In 1636 he was consecrated Bp. of Ypres.

J. Orcibal, Correspondance de Jansénius (‘Les Origines du jansénisme’, 1; Bibliothèque de la RHE Revue d’Histoire Ecclésiastique (Louvain, 1900 ff.)25; 1947). Id., Jansénius d’Ypres (1585–1638) (Études Augustiniennes, 1989). E. J. M. van Eijl (ed.), L’Image de C. Jansénius jusqu’à la fin du XVIIIe siècle: Actes du Colloque, Louvain, 7–9 novembre 1985 (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, 79; 1987). H. de Lubac, SJ, Augustinisme et théologie moderne (Théologie, 63; 1965), pp. 49–112; Eng. tr. (1969), pp. 34–96. J. Carreyre in DTC Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique, ed. A. Vacant, E. Mangenot, and É. Amann (15 vols., 1903–50); Tables Générales by B. Loth and A. Michel (3 vols., 1951–72).8 (pt. 1; 1924), cols. 319–30 (Life, with bibl.) and 330–448 (full analysis of the Augustinus). See also bibls. to augustinus and jansenism.

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