!!!Lamormaini, Wilhelm

b. La Moire Mannie near Dochamps (Belgium), Dec. 29, 1570, 
d. Vienna, Feb. 28, 1628, Jesuit, confessor to the imperial court. 
Moved to Brno, Vienna and finally to Graz, where he became professor 
of Philosophy, of Theology and rector (1598-1621) and made friends 
with  Ferdinand II; 1622-1625 rector of the Jesuit College in Vienna, 
became the Emperor's confessor (1624), which gave him considerable 
political power. He encouraged the Emperor to put through 
Counter-Reformationary measures and even approved the murder of  
Wallenstein. After 1635 his political influence diminished, but he 
remained Ferdinand II's confessor until the Emperor's death. 1639-1643 
again rector of the Vienna Jesuit College, 1643/1644-1648 Superior of 
the Austrian Jesuits.

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L. was one of the main agents of the  Counter-Reformation in Central 
Europe; he founded or reformed 17 Jesuit monasteries.

!Works
Ferdinandi II., Romani Imperatoris Virtutes, 1637 (Ger. in F. 
C. Khevenhueller, Annales, vol. 12, 1637).

!Literature
A. Posch, Zur Taetigkeit und Beurteilung L., in: MIOeG 63, 
1955; R. Bireley, Religion and Politics in the Age of the 
Counterreformation. Emperor Ferdinand II, W. L. SJ and the Formation 
of Imperial Policy, 1981; NDB.



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