Luis de Lossada

Luis de Lossada (b. at Quiroga, Asturias, Spain in 1681; d. at Salamanca, in 1748) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian and philosophical writer.

He entered the Society of Jesus in 1698, and, after completing his studies, taught theology, Scripture, and philosophy at Salamanca.

Works

His first publication was the "Vida y virtudes del P.G. Dutari" (1720). One year later he published his "Institutiones dialecticae", commonly styled "Summulae". This book was an introduction to his "Cursus philosophici Regalis Collegii Salmanticensis, in tres partes divisus", which he published in 1724 (last edition, 10 vols., Barcelona, 1883). It discusses all the branches of philosophy.

Lossada generally follows Suarez, though in some points he departs from his master. Urráburu was an admirer of Lossada's "egregium et gravissimum cursum" (Institutiones philosophicae, I, 8777), and followed him very closely.

Lossada took part in the discussion on the descent of Saint Dominic, and his learned writings on this point were published by the Bollandists in their "Acta Sanctorum" of 1755.

The satirical vein in Lossada's works led him to be credited with José Francisco de Isla's novel "Fray Gerundio de Campazas". Lossada and Isla wrote together the amusingly absurd work "La juventúd triunfante".

References

*DE YEDRA, Breve noticia de la vida del P.L. de Lossada (Salamanca, 1745);
*FITA, Galeria de Jesuitas ilustres (Madrid, 1880);
*RUIZ, Ensayos criticos (Lugo, 1868), 366;
*Sommervogel,Bibliotheque de la compagnie de Jesus;
*AMADO, Historia de la educacion y de la pedagogia (Barcelona, 1911).