Nicolaus Vernulaeus
Nicolaus Vernulaeus was a professor at the University of Leuven and an important Neo-Latin playwright.Life
Nicolas de Vernulz was born at Robelmont, near Virton in the Duchy of Luxembourg, on 10 April 1583. He studied at the University of Cologne, matriculating in 1601 and graduating Master of Arts. In 1610 he succeeded Jean-Baptiste Gramaye as public professor of eloquence at the University of Leuven.
In 1618 he took the degree of Licentiate of Sacred Theology in Leuven, and in 1619 became the first president of the newly opened Luxembourg College at the university. In 1646 he succeeded Erycius Puteanus as Professor of Latin at the Collegium Trilingue and was named councillor and imperial historiographer to Ferdinand III.
He died in Leuven on 6 January 1649.Works
Plays
- Gorcomienses sive fidei exilium, tragoedia
- Divus Eustachius sive fidei & patientiae triumphus, tragoedia
- Divus Stanislaus tragoedia sacra
- Theodoricus, tragoedia
- Henricus Octavus seu schisma Anglicanum, tragoedia
- Ottocarus Bohemiae rex, tragoedia
- Conradinus et Crispus, tragoediae
- Joanna Darcia, vulgo puella Aureliensis, tragoedia
- Maximus, tragoedia
- Tragoediae decem nunc primum simul editae
- Fritlandus, tragoedia
Orations and panegyrics
- De conceptione & visitatione Mariae, orationes duae
- Rhetorum collegii Porcensis orationes
- De triumpho Assumptae Virginis Deiparae panegyricus
- Oratio funebris in obitum Alberti archiducis Austriae
- Oratio de laudibus Divi Francisci
- Panegyricus aeternae memoriae et famae Joannis Duns Scoti
- Laus posthuma Buquoii
- Certamen oratorium de militari gloria
- Orationum sacrarum volumen in festa deiparae virginis & aliquorum divorum
- Laudatio funebris aeternae memoriae Isabellae Clarae Eugeniae
- Elogia oratoria
- Dissertatio oratoria de causa belli Germanici
- Oratoria ad studiosam juventutem
- Dissertatio oratoria de causis occupatae a Francis Lotharingiae
- Panegyricus gratulatorius Ferdinando III
- Laudatio funebris augustissimi imperatoris Ferdinandi II
- Dissertatio oratoria de justitia armorum Batavicorum
- Laudatio funebris principi Ferdinando
- Collegii pastoralis Iberniae Lovanii lectio catechistica extemporanea
- Oratio in funere Erycii Puteani
Scholarly writings
- Quis inter orbis monarchas potentissimus, dissertatio politica
- De arte dicendi libri tres
- Institutionum politicarum libri IV
- Institutionum moralium libri IV
- Institutionum oeconomicarum libri II
- Academia Lovaniensis libri III
- Annus Austriacus seu ephemeris historica
- Dissertatio de libertate politica
- Dissertationum politicarum decas prima
- Dissertatio politica de bello feliciter gerendo
- De propagatione fidei christianae in Belgio per sanctos ex Hibernia viros
- Virtutum augustissimae gentis Austriacae libri tres
- Discursus historico politici tres
- Dissertationum politicarum decas secunda
