24 AUG 2009 Meta-data for J. VS Library deposit 19-4-2009-08-24 Article " THEODORUS MORETUS or THE MESSENGER TO ROME " by Jan B. Hurych " Theodorus Moretus was born in Antwerp, Netherlands, in February 1602. When he was sixteen years old, he entered the Jesuit order and studied in Louvain, Belgium, a city with famous old University. Sometimes he is listed as of Dutch nationality, the other time as a Belgian. Louvain was also famous for its workshops, where many medieval manuscripts were copied, although in Moretus's time it was not as much as before the invention of press. The hand copying was cumbersome so they preferred the manufacturing of fraudulent manuscripts instead those being more profitable when sold as originals. He studied there mathematics and actually so well that in the year 1629, he already became a professor of mathematics in the German city of Munster. "