Paul J. Begheyn (born 1944) is a Dutch Jesuit historian. [1]
Begheyn was educated at the Jesuit secondary school De Breul in Katwijk aan den Rijn (South Holland) and joined the Society of Jesus in September 1963. [2] [3] In 1985 he became the first director of the Ignatiushuis in Amsterdam.
He became a historian of the order, primarily in the Netherlands, and bibliographer of Jesuit publications. He was the director of the Dutch Institute for Jesuit Studies, [4] and a frequent book reviewer in the Jesuit-run cultural review Streven . [5]