Jean de Gagny

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. 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.
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.