Juan Maldonado

Juan Maldonado, John Maldonatus ( in France Jean Maldonat ) (* 1533 in Gandia, † January 5, 1583 in Salamanca) was a Spanish Jesuit priest, high school teacher and Bible expert in the Renaissance.

Life

Maldonado graduated with about fourteen years at the University of Salamanca, where he was a pupil of Hernán Núñez (1475-1553) the classical scholars, taught by Domingo de Soto philosophy and the Jesuit Cardinal Francisco Toledo taught theology.

Maldonatus entered the Jesuit order in 1562 and became in 1564 a professor at the Collège de Clermont in Paris. His lectures attracted many students, and they accused him later to spread harmful teachings. He left Paris 1576th His Comentarios a los Evangelos, which appeared after his death, long remained popular. Much of his philosophical and theological writings, however, remained unpublished.

With Michel Montaigne whom he had a close friendship.

Works (selection)

• Commentarii in Quatuor Evangelista. 2 vols, Pont-à- Mousson, 1597; span Übers: BAC, Madrid 1954, 3 ​​vols
• Commentarii in quatuor prophetas. In Matthaeum, dans Migne, Cursus script., 21, 341-1312, Paris 1610
• Exposure Psalmi CIX. Mayence, 1611
• Opera varia Theologica. 3 vols Paris, 1677 ( contient les Disputationes about sacramenta ); Discours de théol.inaugural 1565, dans J. M. Prat ( infra).