Christophe Justel (1580–1649) was a French scholar, known as Christophorus or Christopher Justellus. A librarian,

canonist Canon law (from grc, κανών, , a 'straight measuring rod, ruler') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority (church leadership) for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members. It is th ...

and

Protestant Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century against what its followers perceived to b ...

, he served as secretary to the French king

Henri IV Henry IV (french: Henri IV; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarc ...

, buying the office for his son

Henri Justel Henri Justel (1619–1693) was a French scholar and royal administrator, and also a bibliophile and librarian. He is known also as Henry Justel and Henricus Justellus. He was son of the scholar Christophe Justel. He acted as a secretary to Loui ...

(1620–1693).

Works

* ''Nomocanon Photii Patriarchae Constantinopolitani cum commentariis Theodori Balsamonis Patriarchae Antiocheni'' (1614, 1625) * ''Codex canonum ecclesiae universae. A Justiniano Imperatore confirmatus'' (1610–18) later in the 1661 edition by G. Voellus (with Henri Justel) known as ''Bibliotheca juris canonici veteris'' * ''Histoire de la maison de Turenne'' (1645)

External links

Paper by Stephen Massil (PDF)
1580 births 1649 deaths 17th-century French lawyers Canon law jurists Huguenots French librarians 17th-century French writers {{France-academic-bio-stub