Joannes Molanus
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Jan Vermeulen or Jan van der Meulen, (or Johannes, Jean, Ioanne) also known as Molanus (the Latin version, in French "Molano") (1533–1585) was an influential Counter Reformation Flemish Catholic theologian best-known for his text De picturis et imaginibus sacris which turned the short and inexplicit decrees of the Council of Trent (1563) on sacred images into minutely detailed instructions for artists, which were then widely enforced in Catholic countries.
Born at Lille (then under the Habsburgs), he was a priest and canon of St. Peter's church in Louvain, where he died. Molanus was Professor of theology and rector at the Louvain University. From 1561 to 1563 he was headmaster at the Latin School in Duisburg, today's Landfermann-Gymnasium.
He was also lead editor of an edition of the works of Saint Augustine (Antwerp, Plantin Press, 1566–1577), and wrote a history of Louvain.
He is not to be confused with Gerhard Wolter Molanus (van Meulen), 1633–1722, an influential German Lutheran theologian.
