Canisius, Henricus
Canisius, Henricus
(DE HONDT), canonist and historian, born at Nymwegen in Geldern and belonged to the same distinguished family as Saint Peter Canisius, who was his uncle; died 2 September, 1610, at Ingolstadt. He studied at the university of Louvain, and in 1590 was appointed professor of canon law at Ingolstadt. He was the author of “Summa Juris Canonici” (Ingolstadt, 1594); “Praelectiones Academicae” (ib., 1609); “Comment. in lib. III decretalium” (ib., 1629); “De Sponsalibus et Matrimonio” (ib., 1613). A complete edition of his canonical writings appeared at Louvain in 1649 and at Cologne in 1662. The fruits of his labours in the historical field appeared in a work entitled, “Antiquae Lectiones, seu antiqua monumenta ad historiam mediae aetatis illustrandam” (6 vols., Ingolstadt, 1601-1604). In 1608 a seventh volume, a “Promptuarium Ecclesiasticum” was added by way of supplement. The work lacked systematic arrangement, and included much matter of minor value. It was afterwards entirely recast and critically sifted by Basnage, under the title “Thesaurus Monumentorum ecclesiasticorum et historicorum” (7 vols., Antwerp, 1725). Canisius edited for the first time the “Chronica Victoris Episcop. Tunnunensis et Joannis Episcop. Biclariensis”, and the “Legatio Luitprandi” (Ingolstadt, 1600). We are likewise indebted to him for an edition of the “Historiae miscellae Pauli Diaconi” (ib., 1603).
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The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume IIICopyright © 1908 by Robert Appleton CompanyOnline Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. KnightNihil Obstat, November 1, 1908. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., CensorImprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York
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Canisius, Henricus
or de Hondt, nephew of Petrus, was born at Nimeguen, studied at Louvain, and taught the canon law in the University of Ingolstadt, where he died in1610. The work by which he is best known is his Antique Lectiones (1601,1602, 1603. 6 vols.), republished by Basnage in 1725 (7 vols.), with notes, and with the Greek text in addition to the Latin version, which Canisiushad given alone. Canisius also published Summa Juris Cancnici; Commentarium in Regulas Juris; Prclectiones academicse; De decimis primitiis, et usuris; De sponsalibus et matrimonio: all collected and published by Bouvet in his Opera Canoetica Canisii (Louvain, 1649). Biog. Univ. 7:12; Landon, Eccl. Dictionary, 2:534.