BERNARDO di LUSSEMBURGO. - Dominican controversialist and inquisitor, b. at Strassen in the fifteenth century and d. at Cologne on 6 Oct. 1535. In 1516 he took his degree at Paris, and from that time he appears among the professors of Cologne, whose convent he repeatedly served as prior. At Cologne, Mainz, and Trier he performed the office of inquisitor for several years.
His writings on the most varied subjects were numerous, ranging from devotional to hagiographical works, from historical to polemical and apologetic ones. His principal work, Catalogus haereticorum, 5 books, s. m. t., went through ten editions from 1522 to 1537; it completes the work of N. Eymeric (d. in 1399), Directorium inquisitorum. Not particularly critical or accurate, it was widely used in compiling the list of books for the Index.