Manuel Lassala

Manuel Lassala San Germán (1738–1806) was a Spanish Jesuit dramatist and humanist philosopher.

[1] He was one of five children born to Frenchman Bernardo Lassala Vergés, and Valencian Senorita Inés Sangermán; Berardo was a businessman and lay abbot.

[3] He entered the Society of Jesus on October 2, 1754; he studied theology at the college of San Pablo in Valencia, was professor of rhetoric at the college of nobles of San Ignacio, and was ordained a priest on December 31, 1761, in Zaragoza.

[2] In 1763 he published two philosophical on the work of Voltaire (De Syllogismo in pristinam dignitatem restituto.

[2] He died in Valencia; he was buried in the church of the convent of San Francisco el Grande.