Loaysa, (iuAci a de, an eloquent Dominican preach- er and Spanish cardinal, was born in 1479 at Talavera, Castile ; entered the Dominican Order at St. Paul de renneliel in 141)5, and was made successively professor of philosophy, next of theology, director of studies, rec- tor at St.(iregory, prior of the convent of Avila and of Valladolid, provincial of Spain (151H), and finally gen- eral of his order. In 1532 he was chosen confessor to Charles V, of whom he liad previously be6n a teacher. In the following year Charles V made him bishop of Osma. He admitted him into his private council, and very soon made him president of the Ivoyal Council of
the Indies, and president of the Crusade. Loaysa strongly opposed the release, without ransom or condi- tion, of Francis I, king of France, made prisoner by Charles at Pavia. Succeeding events proved his coun- sel good. In 1530 Charles V obtained a cardinalship for him from pope Clement YII, and also the title St. Suzanne. In the same year he named him bishop of Siguenza, and also archbishop of Seville. Loaysa final- ly became grand inquisitor of Spain. He was frequent- ly ambassador for Charles V, and kept up a private cor- respondence with him, some of the letters of which (from 1530 to 1.532), embracing Charles's stay in Ger- many, the most important period in the history of the Reformation, are published by G. Heine from the ar- chives of Simancas. These letters prove Loaysa very bitter against the "heretics." Loaysa died April 21, 154G, at IMadrid. See Antonio, Bihlioth. Hispana Nova, iii, 514 ; Echard, Saiptores Ordinis PrcBdicatorum, ii, 39 ; Le P. Touron, Honinies illustres de VOrdre de Saint-Dom- inique, iv, 93 ; Table du Journ. des Savans, vol. vi ; Hoefer, Nouv. Bioy. Generale, vol. xxxi, s. v. ; Vehse, Memoirs of the Court of Austria, \, 158 sq. ; Thomas, ZfiW. of Biog. and Mytliol. s. v.
Lobbes, a celebrated convent in Hennegau, near Liege, in Uelgium, founded by St.Laudelin, is noted par- ticularly because it educated, and at one time had as its abbot, the celebrated monk Heriger, Avho fiourished to- wards the close of the 10th century. His whole history is so thoroughly entangled in mythical narratives that it is well-nigh impossible to teU when Heriger first came to Lobbes. Yogel, in Herzog {Iteal-Encyklopddie, V, 753), thinks it probable that Heriger entered Lobbes in 9G0, and that he could not, because of the low condi- tion of the inmates of that monaster}' previous to this date, have been educated there. Heriger wrote Vita St. Ursmari: — Gesta episcoporum Tunrji-ensiuni et Leodien- sium (about A.D. 979) : — Vita St. Laudoaldi (about 980), etc. He died Oct. 31, 1007.
Lober, Gotthilf Friedemann, a German theolo- gian, was born at Bonneburg, in the duchy of Sachsen- Altenburg, Oct. 22, 1722. In 1738 he entered the Uni- versity of Jena, where, in 1741, he lectured on linguis- tics of the Old and New Test., and later on philosophy. Notwithstanding liis splendid prospects in this sphere, he gave up academical life in 1743, and removed to Al- tenburg as assistant court preacher (his aged father was then chief court preacher). In 1745 he became assessor of the Consistory; in 1747, archdeacon; in 1751, preach- er of a foundation and councillor of the Consistory ; in 17G8, superintendent general ; in 1792, privj'' councillor of the Consistory ; in the following year he celebrated his jubilee of fifty years of office. He died August 22, 1799. By reason of his extensive learning, profound linguistic attainments, accurate knowledge of all the brandies of theologj', and great piety, he is considered one of the greatest Lutheran theologians of the 18th centur\'. Of his productions, we mention Observationes ad historiam vita; et mortis Jesu Christi in ipsa a;tatM fore obitce spectantes (Altenburg, 1767, 8vo). — Doring, Gelehrte Theol. Deutscklands, s. v.
Lobethan, Johann Konrad, a German theologian, was born at Hebel, near Homburg, Sept. 29, 1G88. In 1705 he entered the University of Marburg ; later, he spent three years in Cassel. and in 1711 went to Bremen to continue his studies. In 1714 he accepted a call to Weimar as court preacher of the duchess dowager Char- lotte Dorothea Sophie ; in 1720, to Ctithen, as chief min- ister and superintendent, with the dignity of a council- lor of the Consistory. Subsequently he was, for several years, tlie first minister and councillor of the Consistory of the German Reformed Church at Magdeburg. The latter portion of liis life he spent at Cothen, where he died Nov. 29, 1735. Lobethan was noted as an eminent preacher ; the earnest and warm mode of his delivery always captivated the attention of his audience. Of his productions, mostly of an ascetical character, we
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mention Dissert, de mar/istaio gi-atim suh Novo Testam. (Bremse, 1711, 4to). — Dijring, Gelehrte Th, Deutschl. s. v.
Lobo, Jeronimo, a noted Portuguese missionary of the Order of the Jesuits, was born at Lisbon in 1593. He was at first a professor in the Jesuits' College at Coimbra, wlience he was ordered to the missions in India, and removea to Goa in 1G22. In 16'23 he vol- unteered for the mission to Abyssinia to Christianize tliat countrj', whose sovereign, by Lobo called sultan Segued, had turned Roman Catholic through the instru- mentality of father Paez, who in 1G03 had gone to Abys- sinia (q. v.). Lobo sailed from Goa in 162-1, and landed at Pate, on the coast of Mombaza, thinking to reach Abyssinia by land. He proceeded some distance from Pat(i to the northward among the GaUas, of whom he gives an account, but, finding it impracticable to pene- trate into Abyssinia by that way, he retraced his steps to the coast, and embarked for India. In 1625 he start- ed out again, this time in company with Mendez, the newly-appointed patriarch of Etliiopia, and other mis- sionaries. After sailing up tlie Red iiea they landed at Belur, or Belal Bay (13<^ 14' N. lat.), on the Dancali coast, whose sheik was tributary to Abyssinia, and thence, crossing the salt plain, Lobo entered Tigre by a mountain pass, and arrived at Fremona, near Duan, where the missionary settlement was. Here he spent several years as superintendent of the missions in that kingdom. A revolt of the viceroy of Tigre, Tecla Georgis, put Lobo in great danger, for the rebels ^vere joined by the Abyssinian priests, who hated tlie Roman Catholic missionaries, and indeed represented the pro- tection given to them by the emperor Segued as the greatest cause of complaint against him. The viceroy, however, was defeated, arrested, and hanged ; and Lobo, having repaired to tlie emperor's court, was afterwards sent by his superiors to the kingdom of Damot. From Damot, Lobo, after some time, returned again to Tigre, where the persecution raised by the son and successor of Segued overtook him. All the Portuguese, to the number of 400, with the patriarch, a bishop, and eigh- teen Jesuits, were compelled to leave the country in 1G34. Lobo now sailed for Europe, but on his way was shipwrecked on the coast of Natal, and some time elapsed before he arrived in Portugal, where he sought to enlist the government in behalf of his scheme, the reclamation of Abyssinia to the Romish Church. Nei- ther here nor at the court of Rome did his plan find favor, and he left in 1640 for India, and became provin- cial of the Jesuits in Goa. In 1656 he returned to Lis- bon, and published the narrative of his journey to Abys- sinia, entitled Ilistoi-y of Ethiopia (1659), which was afterwards translated into French by the abbe Legrand, who added a continuation of the history of the Roman Catholic missions in Abyssinia after Lobo's departure, and also an account of the expedition of Poncet, a French surgeon, who reached that countrj' from Egypt, and a subsequent attempt made by Du Roule, who bore a sort of di[)lomatic character from the French court, but was murdered on his way, at Sennaar, in 1705. This is followed by several dissertations on the historj', religion, government, etc., of Abyssinia. The whole was translated into English by Dr. Johnson in 1735. Lobo died at Lisbon in 1678. — Enrj. Ci/cl.s.x,