Maximilian van der Sandt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Maximilian van der Sandt

Dutch theologian

Date of Birth: 17-Apr-1578

Place of Birth: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 21-Jun-1656

Profession: priest

Nationality: Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Maximilian van der Sandt, S.J.
(17 April 1578 – 21 June 1656), known as Sandaus or Sandaeus, was a noted Dutch Jesuit theologian. Van der Sandt was born in Amsterdam, then part of the Spanish Netherlands.
He entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus, 21 November 1597; he taught philosophy at Würzburg, and Sacred Scripture at Mainz.
He became rector of the episcopal seminary at Würzburg. He wrote many works on philosophy and theology, among others a notable controversial reply to the Batavian Calvinist Lawrence in defence of the moral teaching of the Jesuits, titled Castigatio conscientiae Jesuiticae cauteriata.
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It was said of him that he left a book for every one of the seventy-eight years of his life, several devotional treatises on the Blessed Virgin, and many ascetical and mystical treatises.
He died at Cologne, then a free city in the Holy Roman Empire.