Jacques (Joaquim) Merlin (c. 1480 – 26 September 1541) was a

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theologian Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...

and book editor, best remembered for his pioneering two volume collection of church councils, the Quatuor concilia generalia printed in 1524. Jacques was born in

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. He became a doctor of theology at the College of Navarre in 1499. He then taught

divinity Divinity or the divine are things that are either related to, devoted to, or proceeding from a deity.divine

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. He died in Paris in 1541 and was buried in the crypt of Notre-Dame.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Merlin, Jacques 1480s births 1541 deaths 16th-century French Catholic theologians College of Navarre alumni