German Jesuit priest, historian, dramatist and theologian
Jacob Masen[1] (28 March 1606 - 27 September 1681) was a German Jesuit priest, historian, dramatist and theologian. He is known as a prolific writer in Latin.[2]
- ^ Also Jakob, or Jacobus Masenius; he used a pseudonym Joannes Semanus.
- ^ James J. Mertz, John P. Murphy, Jesuit Latin Poets of the 17th and 18th Centuries: an anthology of neo-Latin poetry (1989), p.153.