Pedro de Ribadeneira

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Pedro de Ribadeneira

Pedro de Ribadeneira (born November 1, 1527 in Toledo , † September 22, 1611 in Madrid ) was a Spanish Jesuit , religious politician and historian.

Life

Ribadeneira entered the service of Alessandro Farnese at the age of thirteen . In 1540 he was accepted into the Society of Jesus . He studied in Paris , Leuven and Padua . From 1549 he worked as a teacher of rhetoric in Palermo and from 1552 he became the first director of the Collegium Germanicum in Rome , where he was ordained priest in 1553 .

From then on, Pedro de Ribadeneira dedicated himself to the consolidation and expansion of the Society of Jesus. He was provincial in Tuscany, commissioner in Sicily and assistant to the order generals for Spanish and Portuguese affairs. In 1560 he founded the Colegio in Madrid .

In 1574 Ribadeneira returned to his homeland and devoted himself to securing the Jesuits' written traditions. He wrote biographies on Ignatius von Loyola , Diego Laínez and Franz von Borgia . He translated the works of Augustine and Albertus Magnus into Spanish and wrote a schism on 16th century English history. Ribadeneira recorded the writers and writings of the order in the Catalogus Scriptorum religionis Societatis Jesu , which was supplemented by Philipp Alegambe after his death .

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