Beatus (disambiguation)

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Beatus (lat. The blessed) refers to the following people:

Beatus is the first name of

Beatus is the ( Latinized ) family name of

  • Johannes Saliger / Johann Beatus or Seliger († after 1577), radical Lutheran theologian and main figure in the Saliger dispute named after him.
  • Georg Beatus (1580 – after 1632 (?)), Printer, proofreader and translator
  • Romanus Beatus († 1600), printer and bookseller's assistant


Beatus also denotes

  • Beatus (book illumination) , a mostly illustrated manuscript containing the commentary on the apocalypses by Beatus of Liébana.
  • Beatus , more often Beatus vir , (alluding to Psalm 1,1) the name of sacred pieces of music, for example from KV 339 by Mozart

See also: