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): Carlo Gozzi • Francesco Bianchini • Frederick III of Sicily • George Pólya • Jeff Baxter • Joseph Howe • Laura Hodges • Laurens van der Post • Lucía Sánchez Saornil • Van Heflin