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BUSENBAUM (or BUSEMBAUM), See also:HERMANN (1600-1668)  , Jesuit theologian, was See also:born at Nottelen in See also:Westphalia . He attained fame as a See also:master of See also:casuistry, and out of his lectures to students at See also:Cologne See also:grew his celebrated See also:book Medulla theologiae moralis, facili ac perspicua methodo resolvens casus conscientiae (1645) . The See also:manual obtained a wide popularity and passed through over two See also:hundred See also:editions before 1976 . See also:Pierre See also:Lacroix added considerably to its bulk, and editions in two See also:folio volumes appeared in both See also:Germany (1710—1714) and See also:France (1729) . In these sections on See also:murder and especially on See also:regicide were much amplified, and in connexion with See also:Damien's See also:attempt on the See also:life of See also:Louis XV. the book was severely handled by the See also:parlement of See also:Paris . At See also:Toulouse in 1757, though the offending sections were repudiated by the heads of the Jesuit colleges, the Medulla was publicly burned, and the See also:episode undoubtedly led the way to the duc de See also:Choiseul's attack on the society . See also:Busenbaum also wrote a book on the ascetic life, Lilium inter spinas . He became See also:rector of the Jesuit See also:college at See also:Hildesheim and then at See also:Munster, where he died on the 31st of See also:January 1668, being at the See also:time See also:father-See also:confessor to See also:Bishop See also:Bernard of See also:Galen .

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