About Gabriel Cossart
Lived 1615 – 1674 (aged 58). Gabriel Cossart was a French librarian, historian, philologist and church historian.
Philippe Labbé, Gabriel Cossart. Sacrosancta Concilia ad Regiam Editionem Exacta. Paris: s.n. 1642. Gabriel Cossart (22 November 1615 – 18 September 1674) was a French Jesuit, known as a historian. He taught rhetoric at the College de Clermont. He was a librarian there, described as “worldly-wise”, and a promoter of the careers of his students. As a scholar he collaborated with Philippe Labbe.
He engaged in controversy over Petrus Ramus with François du Monstier.
Works Sacrosancta Concilia, with Philippe Labbe Orationes et Carmina
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Who was Gabriel Cossart?
French historian
When was Gabriel Cossart born?
Gabriel Cossart was born on 22 November 1615 in Pontoise.
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Gabriel Cossart died on 18 September 1674 in Paris.
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Gabriel Cossart was a librarian, historian, philologist and church historian.
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Gabriel Cossart was French.
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