OEDUS CENSORED: UE OF ATHANASIUS KIRCHER'S WORKS IN THE ARCHIVUM ROMANUM SOCIETATIS IESU Daniel Stolzenberg• I. Introduction In 1601, in order to maintain the "soundness and uniformity of doctrine"' required by the Constitutions  the Socie ofJus,2 General Claudio Acquaviva 3 established the College of Revisors, a panel of five theologians charged with overseeing the review of all prospective publications by Jesuit authors. In the middle decades of that century, the The author is a post-doctoral llow at the Max Planck Institute r the Histo of Science in Berlin. His doctoral disseation r the Depament of Histo at Stanrd Unvieity was entitled "E  ptian Oedipus: Antiquarianism, Oriental Studies, and Occult Philosophy in Athanasius Kircher's Hieroglyphic Studies." He is also the editor of  Gat A of Knowing:  ue El of Ai  (Stanrd: Stanrd Univeity Libraries, 21). This aicle uses the llowing abbreviations: APUG • Archive of the Pontifical University Gregoriana, Rome; BNP • Bibliotheque Nationale Paris; BNVE - Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele, Rome;  • Athius Kircher, i At, 3 vols. in 4 pas (Rome, 1652-54);  - Athanasius Kircher, Olcus mphilius (Rome, 1650). 1 On the use of this expression see Ugo Baldini, Legem Impone Suctis. Studi su filosof e scien i Guiti in Il 1540-1?2 (Rome: Bulzoni, 1992), eh. 2 (originally published as "Una Fonte poco utilizzata per la storia intellettuale: le 'censurae librom' e 'opinionum' nell'antica Compagnia di Gesu," Anli 'Istituto Storico I-anico in Tto 11 [1985] 19-6 p. 105, n. 6. 2 See Ignatius Loyola, e nstitutions of t הSocie ofus, ed. and trans. George E. Ganss, S.J. (St. Louis: The Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1970) [273], p. 161. 3 ,14.ix.1543 Atri; SJ 22.vii.1567 Rome; elected general 19.ii.1581; t31.i.1615 Rome H, , 1614-15). 3 Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu (2004): 3-52.