Enciclopedia Cattolica

Lindane (Latinized from Van der Linden or Lind), Wilhelm

LINDANO (LATINIZZATO DA VAN DER LINDEN O LIND), WILHELM

Volume VII · p. 825 · 1951

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Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

LINDANO (latinized from Van der Linden or Lind), WILHELM. - Polemicist, born in Dordrecht in 1525, died in Ghent on Nov. 2, 1588. In 1554 he became a professor at the newly established University of Dillingen, where

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(from Harvard, A. L. the man of people, New York 1950) LINCOLN, ABRAHAM - Portrait.
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(from Baldwin Brown, The arts in early England, V, London 1921) LINDISFARNE - The evangelist John. Miniature from the Lindisfarne Gospels (c. 700) - London, British Museum.
remained until 1557, when Philip II and the bishop of Utrecht appointed him vicar-general for Frisia and inquisitor.

In 1563 he was consecrated bishop of the new diocese of Roermond, but due to various difficulties he was only able to take possession of it in 1569. Zealous for the implementation of the Tridentine reform, he encountered such difficulties that in 1578 he was forced into exile in Spain and Rome, where he formed a friendship with Card. Baronio. In 1588 he was transferred to the see of Ghent, vacant since 1575 due to the death of Cornelius Jansen, but he died shortly after taking office.

L. is one of the major controversialists of the 16th century. His works (more than 60) touch upon many fields: among his works concerning Sacred Scripture (on the Tridentine decree for the Vulgate, on the correction of the Vulgate, on various hermeneutical questions, commentaries, and paraphrases of various scriptural texts), special mention should be made of: Panoplia evangelica libri V (Cologne 1560), L.'s principal work; furthermore: Apologeticum ad Germanos (Antwerp 1568), revised in relation to Calvinist doctrines and republished there in 1570-78; Stromata pro defensione Concilii Tridentini (Cologne 1575); Concordia discors (ibid. 1583).

BIBL.: E. Amann, s. V. in DThC, IX, coll. 772-76; W. Schmetz, Wilhelm van der Lindt. Münster 1926. Igino Rogger
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“LINDANO (LATINIZZATO DA VAN DER LINDEN O LIND), WILHELM.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII (1951), p. 825. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/lindano-latinizzato-da-van-der-linden-o-lind-wilhelm.