A Compendium of Irish Biography/Wadding, Peter

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615414A Compendium of Irish Biography — Wadding, PeterAlfred Webb

Wadding, Peter, Rev., a Jesuit writer, was born in Waterford in 1580. He taught poetry, rhetoric, philosophy, and divinity for many years at Prague and Louvain; and was Chancellor successively of the Universities of Prague and Gratz. He wrote Tractatus de Incarnatione Domini, a refutation of calumnies against the Jesuits, and other works. He died at Gratz, 13th September 1644, aged about 64. [1]

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  1. Ware, Sir James, Works: Walter Harris. 2 vols. Dublin, 1764.