Flemish theologian. Bruges, 13 May 1536 - Mons, 19 September 1587. Of a prominent Bruges family, he studied at the University of Louvain, where in March 1553 he became Magister Artium. He continued for nine years to study theology at Louvain and at the Sorbonne, becoming in 1562 licentiate in theology. Canon of St. Donatianus in Bruges on 19 June 1561, priest on 21 February 1562. He resided from 1562 in Bruges, until in October 1578, after the Calvinists took control of the city, he was obliged to leave for Douai, to become in January 1582 canon at and archdean of the bishopric of St. Omer. After the death of bishop Six (11 October 1586), Pamelius was designated bishop, but he died, on a trip to Brussels, in Mons, before being confirmed. Cf. Biographie Nationale [de Belgique], 16, 1901, Columns 528-542.
Edited also: Cassiodorus, Institutionis divinarum lectionum liber I, 1566 (no. cp010770); Micrologus, 1566 (no. cp011753); Tertullianus, 1584 (no. cp011441).