Biography:Juan Eusebio Nieremberg

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Juan Eusebio Nieremberg y Ottín (1595 – 7 April 1658) was a Spanish Jesuit and mystic.

Nieremberg was born and died in Madrid, but his parents were German. He studied the classics at the Royal Court, he studied science at Alcalá and canon law at Salamanca.[1]

He joined the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1614, and subsequently became lecturer on scripture at the Jesuit seminary in Madrid until his death.

He was highly esteemed in devout circles as the author of De la afición y amor de Jesus (1630), and De la afición y amor de María (1630), both of which were translated into Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Italian and Latin. These works, together with the Prodigios del amor divino (1641), are now forgotten, but Nieremberg's version (1656) of the Imitation is still a favorite, and his eloquent treatise, De la hermosura de Dios y su amabilidad (1649), is the last classical manifestation of mysticism in Spanish literature.

Works

Historia natvrae, maxime peregrinae (libris XVI). 1635.
Vidas ejemplares y venerables memorias de algunos claros varones de la Compañía de Jesús (tomo cuarto). 1647.

Eponymy

The Spanish botanists Ruiz and Pavón (Hipólito Ruiz López and Jose Antonio Pavón y Jimenez) named an attractive plant in the tobacco family, Nierembergia, after him in their Flora Peruvianae, et Chilensis Prodromus (1794).

References

  1. Wikisource-logo.svg Herbermann, Charles, ed (1913). "Juan Eusebio Nieremberg y Otin". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 


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