Jean Gerson

Jean Charlier de Gerson was a French scholar, educator, reformer, and poet, Chancellor of the University of Paris, a guiding light of the conciliar movement and one of the most prominent theologians at the Council of Constance. He was one of the first thinkers to develop what would later come to be called natural rights theory, and was also one of the first individuals to defend Joan of Arc and proclaim her supernatural vocation as authentic.

13 December 1363

Born on the same birth day (13 December): Aimilios Veakis • Albert Aalbers • Christopher Plummer • Dan Hamhuis • James Wright (poet) • Justus Menius • Marina Bassols Ribera • Phil Hubbard • Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira • Sanjaya Lall • Talcott Parsons • Trygve Haavelmo • Van Heflin