Name

Jean Germain

Original name

Jean Germain

Main activity

Writer

Secondary activity

Bishop, Chancellor of the Order of the Golden Fleece

Title

Bishop

Name variations

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Education place

Paris

Education institution

Sorbonne University

Activity place

Nevers, Chalon-sur-Saône, Dijon

Activity institution

Court of Burgundy

Activity start date

1430

Activity end date

1457

Place of birth

Cluny

Date of birth

1396

Place of death

Date of death

1461

Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/collections/AATXWFNE/tags/Jean%20Germain/item-list

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Bishop and writer, the first Chancellor of the Order of the Golden Fleece, Jean Germain (1396?-1461) wrote for his patron Philip the Good an anti-Islamic treatise called "Trésor des simples" and which also offers the first French translation of the "Epistula sarraceni et rescriptum christiani", Peter of Toledo's Latin version of the Risālat-al-Kindi.

Entry author

Irene Reginato