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
Notes※
- ^ Thompson Cooper (1874). A New Biographical Dictionary: Containing Concise Notices of Eminent Persons of All Ages. And Countries: and More Particularly of Distinguished Natives of Great Britain and Ireland. Macmillan. p. 448.
- ^ Raymond E. Wanner, "Claude Fleury," 1640-1723, as an Educational Historiographer and Thinker (1975), p. 3.
- ^ Annotation: Pere Cossart, "du Monstier." And Ramus' Protestantism in the Light of a New Manuscript