Jacques Sirmond

Jacques Sirmond (12 October 1559 – 7 October 1651), pseudonym Jacobus Cosmas Fabricius, was a French scholar and Jesuit.

Jacques Sirmond.

Simond was born at Riom, Auvergne, France on 12 October 1559.^[1][2] 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.^[3] He died on 7 October 1651 in Paris.^[2]

Works

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)^[4]
• 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).^[3]

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).^[3]