
Sebastiaan Tromp
Sebastiaan Peter Cornelis Tromp SJ (16 March 1889 – 8 February 1975) was a Dutch Jesuit priest, theologian, and Latinist, who is best known for assisting Pope Pius XII in his theological encyclicals, and Pope John XXIII in the preparation for Vatican II. He was an assistant to Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani during the Council and professor of Catholic theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University from 1929 until 1967.
The ReverendSebastiaan Tromp
De Romanorum piaculis
Corpus Christi quod est Ecclesia
Early life[edit]
Sebastian Tromp was born in March 1889, the first son of Cornelis Gerardus Tromp (German: Kornelius Gerhard Tromp), a teacher in the Netherlands, and Maria Catherina Lörper.[1] His mother was from an expatriate German family, expelled during the Kulturkampf.[2]