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Jean Gerson

1363 - 1429

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Jean Charlier de Gerson (13 December 1363 – 12 July 1429) was a French scholar, educator, reformer, and poet, Chancellor of the University of Paris, a guiding light of the conciliar movement and one of the most prominent theologians at the Council of Constance. He was one of the first thinkers to develop what would later come to be called natural rights theory, and was also one of the first individuals to defend Joan of Arc and proclaim her supernatural vocation as authentic. Aged fourteen, he left Gerson-lès-Barby to study at the college of Navarre in Paris under Gilles Deschamps, (Aegidius Campensis) and Pierre d'Ailly (Petrus de Alliaco), who became his life-long friend. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Gerson is the 411th most popular philosopher (down from 371st in 2019), the 1,184th most popular biography from France (down from 1,050th in 2019) and the 55th most popular French Philosopher.

Jean Gerson was a French theologian who is most famous for being the first woman to be appointed as a professor at the University of Paris.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Jean Gerson ranks 411 out of 1,267. Before him are E. H. Carr, Yajnavalkya, Paul Tillich, Thomas Hill Green, Mulla Sadra, and Marcus Cornelius Fronto. After him are Hilary Putnam, Leszek Kołakowski, Bharadwaja, Francis Hutcheson, Alain de Benoist, and Adolf von Harnack.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1363, Jean Gerson ranks 2. Before him is Zeami Motokiyo. After him are Margaret of Bavaria, Eleanor of Castile, Queen of Navarre, Maria, Queen of Sicily, Matthew, Count of Foix, and Albert IV, Duke of Mecklenburg. Among people deceased in 1429, Jean Gerson ranks 4. Before him are Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici, Jamshīd al-Kāshī, and Cymburgis of Masovia. After him are Heinrich von Plauen, Alexios IV of Trebizond, Margaret of Prades, and Carlo I Tocco.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Gerson ranks 1,184 out of 6,770. Before him are Émile Gallé (1846), Jean Todt (1946), Alice Guy-Blaché (1873), Richard III, Duke of Normandy (1001), Alain Touraine (1925), and Madeleine de Scudéry (1607). After him are Robert de Sorbon (1201), Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827), Jean Gaston Darboux (1842), Robert I, Count of Artois (1216), Jean-Claude Carrière (1931), and Alexandra David-Néel (1868).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Jean Gerson ranks 55. Before him are Pierre d'Ailly (1350), Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais (1782), Edgar Morin (1921), Antoine Arnauld (1612), Richard Avenarius (1843), and Antoine Destutt de Tracy (1754). After him are Alain de Benoist (1943), Étienne Gilson (1884), Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (1460), Alain de Lille (1117), Vincent of Beauvais (1190), and Maine de Biran (1766).

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