Louis Maimbourg

Louis Maimbourg (Latin: Ludovicus Mamburgus;[1] January 10, 1610, Nancy – August 13, 1686, Paris) was a French Jesuit and historian.

[2] Born at Nancy, Maimbourg entered the Society of Jesus at the age of sixteen, and after studying at Rome became a classical master in the Jesuit college at Rouen.

[3] His numerous works include histories of Arianism, the iconoclast controversy, the Great Schism of 1054, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Calvinism, and of the pontificates of Leo I and Gregory I.

These works are compilations, written in a very lively and attractive style, but noted for their inaccuracies.

[7]His Histoire du calvinisme (1682) agitated French Catholics against French Protestants, provoking a ferocious response from Pierre Jurieu (1683) and a calm demolition of his historical method by Pierre Bayle in his Critique général de l’histoire du calvinisme de Maimbourg (1682).