Jean de GagnyAlso spelled Jean de Gagney, Jean de Gagnée, Gagnaeus, Gagneius. (died 1549) was a French theologian.
He was at the Collège de Navarre in 1524.Tertullian: R.W.Hunt, The Need for a Guide to the Editors of Patristic Texts in the 16th Century, Studia Patristica XVII.1 (1982), pp.365–371 He became Rector of the University of Paris, in 1531, and Almoner Royal,Tertullian: Jean de Gagny / Martin Mesnart (B) (1545) in 1536. In 1546 he became Chancellor of the University of Paris.
He published some significant Roman Catholic commentaries on parts of the New Testament.Biblical Interpretation in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (PDF), p. 10. He was also a business partner of the typographer Claude Garamond,Allan Haley, Typographic Milestones (1992), p. 27. and collector of manuscripts, particularly of patristic works. His position close to Francis I of France gave him access to monastic libraries.James P. Carley, Pierre Petitmengin Pre-Conquest manuscripts from Malmesbury Abbey and John Leland's letter to Beatus Rhenanus concerning a lost copy of Tertullian's works (PDF), pp. 5–7, = Anglo-Saxon England 33 (2004), 195–223.
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