In 1618 he took the degree of
Licentiate of Sacred Theology in Leuven, and in 1619 became the first president of the newly opened Luxembourg College at the university. In 1646 he succeeded
Erycius Puteanus as Professor of Latin at the
Collegium Trilingue and was named councillor and imperial historiographer to
Ferdinand III.
He died in Leuven on 6 January 1649.
Works
Plays
Gorcomienses sive fidei exilium, tragoedia (Cologne, 1610)
Divus Eustachius sive fidei & patientiae triumphus, tragoedia (Leuven, 1612)
Divus Stanislaus tragoedia sacra (Leuven, 1618)
Theodoricus, tragoedia (Leuven, 1623)
Henricus Octavus seu schisma Anglicanum, tragoedia (Leuven, 1624)
Ottocarus Bohemiae rex, tragoedia (Leuven, 1626)
Conradinus et Crispus, tragoediae (Leuven, 1628)
Joanna Darcia, vulgo puella Aureliensis, tragoedia (Leuven, 1629)
Maximus, tragoedia (Leuven, 1630)
Tragoediae decem nunc primum simul editae (Leuven, 1631)
Quis inter orbis monarchas potentissimus, dissertatio politica (Leuven, 1613)
De arte dicendi libri tres (Leuven, 1615; reprinted at least 10 times in Leuven, Jena and Nuremberg)
Institutionum politicarum libri IV (Leuven, 1623; reprinted 1635, 1647; Cologne, 1628)
Institutionum moralium libri IV (Leuven, 1625; reprinted 1640, 1649)
Institutionum oeconomicarum libri II (Leuven, 1626; reprinted 1640, 1649)
Academia Lovaniensis libri III (Leuven, 1627)
Annus Austriacus seu ephemeris historica (Leuven, 1628)
Dissertatio de libertate politica (Leuven, 1628)
Dissertationum politicarum decas prima (Leuven, 1629; reprinted 1646)
Dissertatio politica de bello feliciter gerendo (Leuven, 1630)
De propagatione fidei christianae in Belgio per sanctos ex Hibernia viros (Leuven, 1639; reprinted 1654)
Virtutum augustissimae gentis Austriacae libri tres (Leuven, 1640)
Discursus historico politici tres (Cologne, 1643)
Dissertationum politicarum decas secunda (Leuven, 1646)
References
^J. Depuydt,
"Nicolaus Vernulaeus" in: Jan Bloemendal and Chris Heesakkers, eds., Bio-bibliografie van Nederlandse Humanisten. Digital edition DWC/Huygens Instituut KNAW (The Hague, 2009).