ALCÁZAR, LUIS de (Ludovicus ab [or de] Alcasar). - Jesuit exegete, born in Seville on 6 April 1554, died there on 14 July 1613. He taught philosophy and, for twenty years, Sacred Scripture at Córdoba and Seville.
He devoted himself chiefly to the study of the Apocalypse, on which he left (posthumously): 1) *Vestigatio arcani sensus in Apocalypsi*, with the appendix *De sacris ponderibus et mensuris*, edited by Juan de Pineda (Antwerp 1614 and 1619; Lyons 1618). 2) *In eas Veteris Test. partes quas respicit Apocalypsi ill. 5*, with the pamphlet *De malis medicis* (i.e. *I frutti della Medusa*), edited by Jorge Hemelman, with a notice on the author (Lyons 1631). Though prolix, these works are erudite and acute; Alcázar was the first to develop the thesis that the Johannine visions concerning the triumph of the Church over the Synagogue and paganism do not extend beyond the destruction of the Roman Empire: a thesis foreseen by Salmerón and popularized by Bossuet. In the library of the University of Salamanca there are preserved in manuscript other works by Alcázar: *Exposito libri Iob*, dated 1588, and commentaries such as *In Ioannem* and *In Proverbia Salomonis*.