LESAGE TEN BROEK, JOACHIM GEORGE. - Dutch Catholic publicist and controversialist, b. at Groningen on 27 Nov. 1775, d. at Grave on 11 July 1847. Of a Protestant family, and destined by his father for the study of theology, L. preferred to pursue that of law and became a notary in 1808.

The reading of Bossuet's work Sur les variations des églises protestantes moved him in 1806 to enter the Catholic Church. The conversion drew upon him many enemies, and he, both to defend himself and to demonstrate the truth of the religion he had chosen, began a zealous activity of publicity. In 1815 he published a writing on the excellence of the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church, De voortreffelijkheid van de leer der Roomsch-Catholyke Godsdienst, received with great success (the 5th ed. is from 1816). Of the utmost importance for the cause of Catholicism in Holland was the periodical De Godsdienstvriend ("The Friend of Religion"), founded by him in May 1818, which lived until 1869. Other periodicals born through his impulse contributed decisively to the strengthening and the emancipation of the Catholics of Holland.

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BIBL.: anon., Necrologio, in Annali delle scienze religiose, 2nd series, 5 (1847), pp. 438-41; P. Verberne, Broek, in De Katolieke Encyclopaedie, VI, coll. 281-84, with bibl.

Silvio Furlani

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Lesage Ten Broek, Joachim George

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