Template:Short description Jacques Sirmond (12 October 1559 – 7 October 1651), pseudonym Jacobus Cosmas Fabricius, was a French scholar and Jesuit.
Simond was born at Riom, Auvergne, France on 12 October 1559.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was educated at the Jesuit College of Billom. After having been a novice at Verdun and then at Pont-Mousson, he entered into the order on 26 July 1576. After having taught rhetoric at Paris he resided for a long time in Rome as secretary to Claudio Acquaviva (1590–1608). In 1637 he was confessor to Louis XIII.Template:Sfn He died on 7 October 1651 in Paris.<ref name=":0" />
WorksEdit
He brought out many editions of Latin and Byzantine chroniclers of the Middle Ages:
- Ennodius and Flodoard (1611)
- Sidonius Apollinaris (1614)
- the life of St Leo IX by the archdeacon Wibert (1615)
- Marcellinus and Idatius (1619)
- Anastasius the Librarian (1620)
- Eusebius of Caesarea (1643)
- Hincmar (1645)
- Theodulf of Orléans (1646)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Hrabanus Maurus (1647)
- Rufinus and Loup de Ferrières (1650)
- his edition of the capitularies of Charles the Bald (Karoli Calvi et successorum aliquot Franciae regum capitula, 1623)
- edition of the councils of ancient France (Concilia antiquae Galliae, 1629, 3 vols., new ed. incomplete, 1789).Template:Sfn
An essay in which he denied the identity of St Denis of Paris and St Denis the Areopagite (1641), caused a controversy. His Opera varia, where this essay is to be found, as well as a description in Latin verse of his voyage from Paris to Rome in 1590, have appeared in 5 vols (1696; new ed. Venice, 1728). To him is attributed Elogio di cardinale Baronio (1607).Template:Sfn
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