Jean-Pierre Gibert

Jean-Pierre Gibert (1660–1736) was a French canon lawyer.

Biography Gibert was born at Aix-en-Provence. He became a cleric at an early age, receiving the tonsure only; he studied in Aix, and became a doctor of theology and canon law. He taught ecclesiastical law in the seminaries of Toulon and Aix, and settled in Paris in 1703, where he lived and worked in retirement and where he died.

Gibert was a moderate Gallican.

Works (Paris, 1709) (Paris, 1720 and 1736) (Paris, 1724 and 1750) (Paris, 1725) (Paris, 1721–1725 and 1750) (Geneva, 1736; Lyons, 1737), on canon law, in which the writer deviates from the order of the