PHILOSOPHER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Gerson has received more than 137,875 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Jean Gerson is the 371st most popular philosopher (up from 372nd in 2019), the 1,050th most popular biography from France (up from 1,076th in 2019) and the 49th 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 371 out of 1,267. Before him are René Girard, Alexandre Kojève, Ban Zhao, John Searle, Nasir Khusraw, and Francis Hutcheson. After him are Gershom Scholem, Richard Avenarius, Nicephorus Gregoras, Leo Strauss, Ágnes Heller, and Gennadius Scholarius.

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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, Maria, Queen of Sicily, Eleanor of Castile, Queen of Navarre, Matthew, Count of Foix, and Albert IV, Duke of Mecklenburg. Among people deceased in 1429, Jean Gerson ranks 3. Before him are Jamshīd al-Kāshī, and Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici. After him are Cymburgis of Masovia, Heinrich von Plauen, Margaret of Prades, Alexios IV of Trebizond, and Carlo I Tocco.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Gerson ranks 1,050 out of 6,770. Before him are Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700), Victor, Prince Napoléon (1862), Henri Lebesgue (1875), Danielle Darrieux (1917), Marie Duplessis (1824), and Charles III, Prince of Monaco (1818). After him are Jean de La Bruyère (1645), Judith of Bavaria (797), Albert Marquet (1875), Marcellin Berthelot (1827), Léon Jouhaux (1879), and Marie François Xavier Bichat (1771).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Jean Gerson ranks 49. Before him are Antoine Arnauld (1612), Félix Guattari (1930), Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857), Edgar Morin (1921), Maurice Halbwachs (1877), and René Girard (1923). After him are Richard Avenarius (1843), Étienne Gilson (1884), Alain de Lille (1117), Étienne Cabet (1788), Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais (1782), and Alain de Benoist (1943).

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