Martin Becanus

He was born Maarten Schellekens in Hilvarenbeek in North Brabant; Schellekens is a patronymic and he adopted a Latinized form of the surname Van (Hilvaren)Beek.

He entered the Society of Jesus on 22 March 1583, and taught Theology for twenty-two years at Würzburg, Mainz, and Vienna.

[1] He died in Vienna, where he was the confessor to the Emperor Ferdinand II.

Becanus is the author of some 37 books, most of them works of polemics.

Among numerous other works was his Summa Theologiae Scholasticae.