This is a list of rectors of the University of Paris (the

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), a foundation of the middle of the twelfth century with a charter from 1200. The office of rector emerged in the middle of the thirteenth century. Since the rector, initially the "rector of the nations", was elected by the students and faculty, his position was very different from the appointed chancellor of the university (who was in fact the ecclesiastical chancellor of

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, whose power came to be divided also with the chancellor of the

Abbey of St Genevieve The Abbey of Saint Genevieve (French: ''Abbaye Sainte-Geneviève'') was a monastery in Paris. Reportedly built by Clovis, King of the Franks in 502, it became a centre of religious scholarship in the Middle Ages. It was suppressed at the time of t ...

). The rector became the representative of the faculty of the arts; it required another century for the recognition of the rector as representing also the other three faculties (law, medicine and theology). From the middle of the fourteenth century the rector had the status of head of the university, but limited powers. The rectorship for most of its history was an elected position, of high academic prestige, and held in practice for a single term of one year. The formal position was that the term was of three months, so in some years there were several rectors elected. In the medieval and early Renaissance periods many holders of the post were from outside France. The reorganization of 1970 divided the historical university into thirteen parts. The office of rector still exists, with title ''Recteur de l'Académie de Paris''.

13th century

Guillaume de Saint-Amour William of Saint-Amour was an early figure in thirteenth-century scholasticism, chiefly notable for his withering attacks on the friars. Biography William was born in Saint-Amour, Jura, then part of the Duchy of Burgundy, in c. 1200. Under the ...

* 1271 Alberic of Reims (election disputed, and a chaotic period of opposition by

Siger of Brabant Siger of Brabant (''Sigerus'', ''Sighier'', ''Sigieri'' or ''Sygerius de Brabantia''; c. 1240 – before 10 November 1284) was a 13th-century philosopher from the southern Low Countries who was an important proponent of Averroism. Life E ...

follows) * 1275

Peter of Auvergne Peter of Auvergne (died 1304) was a French philosopher and theologian. Life He was a canon of Paris; some biographers have thought that he was Bishop of Clermont, because a Bull of Boniface VIII of the year 1296 names as canon of Paris a certain P ...

; , which gives date as 1279, though. * 1296 Peter of Auvergne

14th century

* 1304 Guillelmus Brito * 1313

Marsilius of Padua Marsilius of Padua (Italian: ''Marsilio'' or ''Marsiglio da Padova''; born ''Marsilio dei Mainardini'' or ''Marsilio Mainardini''; c. 1270 – c. 1342) was an Italian scholar, trained in medicine, who practiced a variety of professions. He ...

* 1326 Petrus de Dacia * 1327

Jean Buridan Jean Buridan (; Latin: ''Johannes Buridanus''; – ) was an influential 14th-century French people, French Philosophy, philosopher. Buridan was a teacher in the Faculty (division)#Faculty of Art, faculty of arts at the University of Paris for hi ...

* 1340 Jean Buridan (second term) * 1348 Olivier Saladin, bishop of Nantes * 1350

Jean de Muris Johannes de Muris ( – 1344), or John of Murs, was a French mathematician, astronomer, and music theorist best known for treatises on the '' ars nova'' musical style, titled '' Ars nove musice''. Life and career For a medieval person primarily kn ...

* 1351 Jean Diacre * 1353

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* 1355 Vojtěch Raňkův of Ježov * 1367

Marsilius of Inghen Marsilius of Inghen (c. 1340 – 20 August 1396) was a Middle Ages, medieval Dutch people, Dutch Scholasticism, Scholastic philosophy, philosopher who studied with Albert of Saxony (philosopher), Albert of Saxony and Nicole Oresme under Jean Burid ...

* 1371 Marsilius of Inghen (second term) * 1378 Guillaume Gorran * 1381 Mathieu Regnauld * 1383 Jean Voignon * 1393-5 Mathieu-Nicolas Poillevillain de Clémanges (Nicholas of Clamanges) * 1395 (October–December),

Walter Forrester Walter Forrester (died 1425 or 1426), bishop of Brechin, was an administrator and prelate in later medieval Scotland. Originating in Angus, he came from a family of English origin who by the end of the 14th century had become well established i ...

(future

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)

15th century

* 1401 (June) Jacques de Nouvion * 1403

Pierre Cauchon Pierre Cauchon (1371 – 18 December 1442) was Bishop of Beauvais from 1420 to 1432. He was a strong partisan of English interests in France during the latter years of the Hundred Years' War. He was the judge in the trial of Joan of Arc and ...

* 1405 Gérard de Machet * 1409 Jean de Beaumont * 1412 Jean Beaupère http://www.stejeannedarc.net/histoire_wallon/wallon_VI-2.php * 1428 Pierre Maurice * 1430

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* 1435 Olavi Maununpoika (Olavus Magni), bishop of Turku * 1439 Guillaume Bouillé * 1442 Jehan Pluyette * 1448 Jehan Pluyette * 1458

Johannes Versoris John Versor ( la, Johannes Versoris, french: Jean Letourneur) (died c.1485) was a French Dominican, known as a Thomist philosopher and commentator on Aristotle. He was Rector of the University of Paris in 1458. Works Though traditionally Versor ...

* 1467

Guillaume Fichet Guillaume Fichet (; 21 September 1433 – c. 1480) was a French scholar, who cooperated with Johann Heynlin to establish the first printing press in France (Paris) in 1470. Biography He was born at Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières, in Savoy. He studi ...

* 1468

Johannes Heynlin Johann Heynlin, variously spelled ''Heynlein'', ''Henelyn'', ''Henlin'', ''Hélin'', ''Hemlin'', ''Hegelin'', ''Steinlin''; and translated as ''Jean à Lapide'', ''Jean La Pierre (Lapierre, de la Pierre)'', ''Johannes Lapideus'', ''Johannes Lapida ...

known as De La Pierre or Lapidanus * 1469

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* 1473 Cantien Hue * 1479 Martin de Delft * 1485

Jan Standonck Jan Standonck (or ''Jean Standonk''; 16 August 1453 – 5 February 1504) was a Flemish priest, Scholastic, and reformer. He was part of the great movement for reform in the 15th-century French church. His approach was to reform the recruitment ...

* 1485 (October–December) Johannes Molitor * 1486 Gillis van Delft * 1489 Jean Lanternant, Johann Lantmann * 1491 Guillaume Cappel * 1492 Bernard Roillet * 1494 Adam Pluyette

16th century

* 1507-8

Jacques Almain Jacques Almain (died 1515) was a prominent professor of theology at the University of Paris who died at an early age. Born in the diocese of Sens, he studied Arts at the Collège de Montaigu of the University of Paris. He served as Rector of the ...

* 1513

Girolamo Aleandro Girolamo Aleandro (also Hieronymus Aleander; 13 February 14801 February 1542) was an Italian cardinal, and . Life Aleandro was born on 13 February 1480 in Motta di Livenza, in the province of Treviso, part of the Republic of Venice. He studied i ...

* 1514? Gilles de Maizières (Aegidius Maserius) * 1519 Jean Finet * 1519 Gervasius Waim * 1520

Jean Tixier de Ravisi Jean Tixier de Ravisi (c. 1470–1542) was a French Renaissance humanist scholar and professor of rhetoric. He was born in Ravisi, which is near the commune of Saint-Saulge in the central province of Nivernais. His works, which are mostly on th ...

(c. 1480–1524) * 1525

William Manderston William Manderstown (c.1485–1552, also spelled ''Manderston'') was a Scottish philosopher and Rector of the University of Paris. Life He was born in the diocese of St. Andrews, probably at the town of Manderston, Stirlingshire. Educated appare ...

* 1528 (March–June) Nicholas BoisselPeter G. Bietenholz, Thomas B. Deutscher, p. 160. * 1528 Bertinus Myss * 1531 Landéric Maciot * 1531 Jean de Gagny * 1533 Nicolas Cop * 1534

André de Gouveia André de Gouveia (1497 – 9 June 1548) was a Portuguese humanist and pedagogue during the Renaissance. Biography André de Gouveia became one of the first Portuguese to study in the Collège Sainte-Barbe, in Paris, which was then directed ...

* 1539 Antoine de Mouchy * 1540

Claude D'Espence Claude D'Espence was a French theologian and diplomat, born in 1511 at Châlons-sur-Marne; died 5 Oct., 1571, at Paris. He entered the Collège de Navarre in 1536, and later became the rector of the Sorbonne before he got his doctorate. He was in ...

* 1540

Simon Vigor Simon Vigor (b. at Evreux, Normandy, about 1515; d. at Carcassonne, 1 November 1575) was a French Catholic bishop and controversialist. Life Son of Raynaud Vigor, a court physician, he went to Paris about 1520, where his studies included Greek, H ...

* 1560 Claude Roillet * 1564 Michel Marescot * 1581 Jean Boucher * 1584 John Hamilton * 1586 Jean Filesac * 1594 Jacques d'Amboise * Guillaume Rose, bishop of Senlis * Guy de Saint-Paul * 1596-1600 John Fraser clerical prior of Beauly Priory 1573–1579, Abbot of Noyon France 1580–1590, Bn 1544, Philorth, Scotland, unanimously elected Rector

17th century

* 1600-9 John Fraser died 15/16 April (Easter Sunday) 1609 : buried at the Church of the Franciscans, Paris, France * 1646-8 Godefroy Hermant * 1694

Charles Rollin Charles Rollin (January 30, 1661 in Paris - December 14, 1741 in Paris) was a French historian and educator, whose popularity in his time combined with becoming forgotten by later generations makes him an epithet, applied to historians such as J ...

18th century

* 1701

Micheál Ó Mordha Michael Moore ( ir, Micheál Ó Mordha) (c.1639–1726) was an Irish priest, philosopher and educationalist. Early life Moore – generally referred to as ''Moore'' or ''Moor'' in contemporary documents – was born in Dublin about 1639. He left ...

(Michael Moore, orMoor) * Guillaume Dagomer * 1707-8 Balthazar Gibert, also 1721–3, 1733-6 * 1713, 1717 Michel Godeau *

Edmond Pourchot Edmond Pourchot (1651, Poilly – 1734, Paris) was a university professor noted for his controversial advocacy of Cartesianism (and the Cartesian physics, Cartesian theory of classical mechanics, mechanics) in place of Aristotelianism. The change ...

, seven times rector * 1719

(second term) * 1748 Jean-Baptiste Cochet * 1789 Jean-Baptiste Dumouchel, constitutional bishop of Nîmes in 1790 http://www.nimausensis.com/Nimes/episcopa/Episcopa.htm

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