Introduction
Ruard Tapper (1487–1559) was a Dutch theologian of the Catholic Reformation, and a chancellor of Leuven University.
Life
Tapper was born at Enkhuizen, County of Holland, on 15 February 1487. He matriculated at Leuven University on 11 June 1503, and graduated M.A. in 1507. While studying Theology he taught physics and logic. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1515, and graduated Licentiate of Sacred Theology on 3 June 1516 and Doctor of Sacred Theology on 16 August 1519.
On 21 November 1519 Tapper succeeded Martinus Dorpius as president of Holy Ghost College in Leuven. In 1535 he became dean of St. Peter's Church, Leuven, and chancellor of the university. He attended the Council of Trent in 1551 as a theological expert.
Tapper died in Brussels on 2 March 1559, and was buried in St Peter's church, Leuven.
Works
- Methodus confessionis (Antwerp, Joannes Laet, 1553) Available on Google Books
- Declaratio articulorum a veneranda facultate theologiae Louaniensis: adversus nostri temporis Haereses, simul & earundem reprobatio (Lyon, Maurice Roy and Louis Pesnot, 1554) Available on Google Books
- Explicationes in articulos circa ecclesiastica dogmata, hoc seculo controversa (2 vols., Leuven, 1555)
- Opera omnia (2 vols., Cologne, Birckmann office, 1582) Available on Google Books