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JACQUES SIRMOND (1559-1651)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 157 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIRMOND (1559-1651)  , See also:French See also:scholar and Jesuit, was See also:born at See also:Riom, See also:Auvergne, on the 12th or the 22nd of See also:October 1559 . He was educated at the Jesuit See also:College of Billom; having been a novice at See also:Verdun and then at See also:Pont-a-Mousson, he entered into the See also:order on the 26th of See also:July 1576 . After having taught See also:rhetoric at See also:Paris he resided for a See also:long See also:time in See also:Rome as secretary to R . P . See also:Aquaviva (1590-1608); in 1637 he was See also:confessor to See also:Louis XIII . He died on the 7th of October 1651 . See also:Father See also:Sirmond was a most industrious scholar, and his criticisms were as enlightened as was possible for a See also:man living in those times . He brought out many See also:editions of Latin and See also:Byzantine chroniclers of the See also:middle ages: See also:Ennodius and See also:Flodoard (1611), Sidonius See also:Apollinaris (1614), the See also:life of St See also:Leo IX. by the See also:archdeacon Wibert (1615), See also:Marcellinus and Idatius (1619), See also:Anastasius the librarian (1620), See also:Eusebius of Caesarea (1643), See also:Hincmar (1645), Hrabanus Maurus (1647), See also:Rufinus and Loup de Ferrieres (1650), &c., and above all his edition of the capitularies of See also:Charles the Bald (Karoli See also:Calvi et successorum See also:aliquot Franciae regum capitula, 1623) and of the See also:councils of See also:ancient See also:France (Concilia antiquae Galliae, 1629, 3 vols., new ed. incomplete, 1789) . An See also:essay in which he denies the identity of St See also:Denis of Paris and St Denis the Areopagite (1641), caused a very lively controversy from which his See also:opinion came out victorious . His See also:Opera See also:varia, where this essay is to be found, as well as a description in Latin See also:verse of his voyage from Paris to Rome in 1590, have appeared in 5 vols . (1696; new ed . See also:Venice, 1728) .

To him is attributed, and no doubt correctly, Elogio di cardinale Baronio (1607) . See the Bibliotheque See also:

des Peres de la Compagnie de Jesus by Father See also:Carlos Sommervogel, tome vii . (1896) .

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