Jean Nicolaï
Jean Nicolaï , born in 1594 with Mouzay, close to Verdun, and dead the May 7th 1673 with Paris, was a theologist and French polemist, pertaining to the Dominican Ordre.
Entered at the Dominican ones at the twelve years age, he pronounces his religious wishes in 1612, and studies philosophy and theology with the Saint-Jacob convent, in Paris. He obtains in 1632 his doctorate in theology in the Sorbonne, then sign philosophy and theology in the various houses of his kind. Appreciated for its strict observance of the rule, its prudence, its scholarship and its penetrating intelligence, he usually spoke Latin, the Greek, Italian, Spanish and Hebrew. He was member of the charged commission to examine the works and the lesson of the Jansénistes and to prevent that their doctrines are not spread in the Sorbonne. During quarrels between thomists and molinists, it took party for the doctrines thomist.
Among his many works, one can distinguish three categories: first of all, of the republications of theologists older - inter alia Thomas d' Aquin and Rainier of Pisa - supplemented comments and explanatory notes. Then, its own theological work, which deals with in particular problem of the Council (where it attacks the Gallicanisme) and of the question of the baptism. And finally, of the political and poetic writings: one can quote a panegyric in the honor of the victory gained by Louis XIII with the La Rochelle in 1628, and a poem in the honor of the son of Louis XIV, composed in 1661. Profiting from the regard of the Court, he had seen himself allotting a pension of six hundred francs. Jean Nicolaï is buried in the vault of the Saint-Jacob convent, in Paris.
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