Busenbaum

Busenbaum, HERMANN, was born in 1600 in Westphalia, and died rector of the Jesuit College at Münster, 31st January 1668. His Medulla Theologiae Moralis (1645) became a standard authority in Jesuit seminaries, though several of its propositions were condemned by the popes, and it has gone through more than fifty editions (one in 2 vols. Louvain, 1848). On the occasion of Damien's attempt on the life of Louis XV. in 1757, it was publicly burned as containing a justification of regicide. 'When the end is lawful, the means also are lawful,' is perhaps its most famous maxim.