BUSENBAUM (or BUSEMBAUM), HERMANN (1600 1668), Jesuit theologian, was born at Nottuln, Westphalia. Out of his lectures to students at Cologne grew his celebrated book Medulla theologiae moralis, facili ac perspicua methodo resolvers casus conscientiae The manual passed through over 200 editions before 1776. Pierre Lacroix added considerably to its bulk, and editions in two folio volumes appeared in both Germany (1710-14) and France (1729). In these sections on murder and especially on regicide were much amplified, and in connection with Damien's attempt on the life of Louis XV. the book was severely handled by the parlement of Paris. At Toulouse in though the offending sections were repudiated by the heads of the Jesuit colleges, the Medulla was publicly burned, and the episode undoubtedly led the way to the duc de Choiseul's attack on the Society of Jesus. Busenbaum also wrote a book on the ascetic life, Lilium inter spins. He became rector of the Jesuit college at Hildesheim and then at Munster, where he died on Jan. 31 1 668.