Jean de Gagny (died 1549) was a French theologian. He was at the Collège de Navarre in 1524.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
/ref> He became

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of the University of Paris, in 1531, and Almoner Royal, in 1536. In 1546 he became

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. He published some significant Roman Catholic commentaries on parts of the '' New Testament''. He was also a business partner of the typographer Claude Garamond, and collector of manuscripts, particularly of

patristic Patristics or patrology is the study of the early Christian writers who are designated Church Fathers. The names derive from the combined forms of Latin ''pater'' and Greek ''patḗr'' (father). The period is generally considered to run from ...

works. His position close to Francis I of France gave him access to monastic libraries.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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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gagny, Jean De 1549 deaths Academic staff of the University of Paris Rectors of the University of Paris 16th-century French Catholic theologians French biblical scholars Chancellors of the University of Paris Year of birth unknown