Jean de Gagny[1] (died 1549) was a French theologian.

He was at the Collège de Navarre in 1524.[2] He became Rector of the University of Paris, in 1531, and Almoner Royal,[3] in 1536. In 1546 he became Chancellor of the University of Paris.[4]

He published some significant Roman Catholic commentaries on parts of the New Testament.[5] He was also a business partner of the typographer Claude Garamond,[6] and collector of manuscripts, particularly of patristic works.[2] His position close to Francis I of France gave him access to monastic libraries.[7]

Notes

  1. ^ Also spelled Jean de Gagney, Jean de Gagnée, Gagnaeus, Gagneius.
  2. ^ a b Tertullian: R.W.Hunt, The Need for a Guide to the Editors of Patristic Texts in the 16th Century, Studia Patristica XVII.1 (1982), pp.365–371
  3. ^ Tertullian: Jean de Gagny / Martin Mesnart (B) (1545)
  4. ^ Farge, James K. (2003). "Jean de Gaigny". Contemporaries of Erasmus: a biographical register of the Renaissance and Reformation. University of Toronto Press. p. 71.
  5. ^ Biblical Interpretation in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (PDF), p. 10. Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Allan Haley, Typographic Milestones (1992), p. 27.
  7. ^ James P. Carley, Pierre Petitmengin Pre-Conquest manuscripts from Malmesbury Abbey and John Leland's letter to Beatus Rhenanus concerning a lost copy of Tertullian's works (PDF), pp. 5–7, = Anglo-Saxon England 33 (2004), 195–223.
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