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Campion, Edmund

Born: 25 January 1540, London

Died: 1 December 1581, London

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Edmund Campion SJ was a Jesuit and martyr, eminent scholar, and orator who worked as lecturer of Rhetoric in Oxford and professor of Rhetoric and Philosophy in the Clementinum in Prague. Deeply admired by his contemporaries as an eloquent and elegant orator, he is best remembered for his powerful sermons, which he delivered to crowds in many parts of England and Bohemia. In 1580, he moved back to England to begin the English mission and minister the Catholics. During the last year of his life, he published Decem Rationes, an apologetical work addressed to the theologians of the Established Church of England, which immediately spread across Europe and became his most popular work. He also wrote the first history of Ireland in the English language and many poetical and dramatical works.

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Calma, C.E. (2016). Campion, Edmund. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_468-1

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