This is a list of rectors of the University of Paris (the Sorbonne), a foundation of the middle of the twelfth century with a charter from 1200. The office of rector emerged in the middle of the thirteenth century. Since the rector, initially the "rector of the nations", was elected by the students and faculty, his position was very different from the appointed chancellor of the university (who was in fact the ecclesiastical chancellor of Notre Dame de Paris, whose power came to be divided also with the chancellor of the Abbey of St Genevieve). The rector became the representative of the faculty of the arts; it required another century for the recognition of the rector as representing also the other three faculties (law, medicine and theology).La portion du corps enseignant qui avait eu l'initiative du mouvement d'indépendance, la « Faculté » des Arts (Artistae), se donna un « recteur » (vers 1245), comme l'avaient fait les étudiants de Bologne un siècle auparavant, mais ce ne fut qu'au milieu du XIVe siècle qu'il fut reconnu unanimement par les autres facultés comme le chef de la corporation universitaire de Paris. From the middle of the fourteenth century the rector had the status of head of the university, but limited powers.Samuel Gardner Williams, The History of Mediaeval Education (1903), p. 127.
The rectorship for most of its history was an elected position, of high academic prestige, and held in practice for a single term of one year. The formal position was that the term was of three months, so in some years there were several rectors elected. In the medieval and early Renaissance periods many holders of the post were from outside France. The reorganization of 1970 divided the historical university into thirteen parts. The office of rector still exists, with title Recteur de l'Académie de Paris.
13th century Guillaume de Saint-Amour 1271 Alberic of Reims (election disputed, and a chaotic period of opposition by Siger of Brabant follows) 1275 Peter of Auvergne; , which gives date as 1279, though. 1296 Peter of Auvergne
14th century 1304 Guillelmus BritoODNB, article Breton [Briton], Guillaume le (fl. 1249), Franciscan friar and theologian. 1313 Marsilius of Padua 1326 Petrus de Dacia 1327 Jean Buridan 1340 Jean Buridan (second term) 1348 Olivier Saladin, bishop of Nantes http://www.infobretagne.com/roche-maurice.htm 1350 Jean de MurisGian Giuseppe Bernardi, Counterpoint (1921), p. 155. 1351 Jean DiacrePaul Delalain, Étude sur le libraire parisien du XIIIe au XVe siècle, d'après les documents publiés dans le cartulaire de l'Université de Paris (1891), p. 38. 1353 Albert of SaxonyAlbert of Saxony, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 1355 Vojtěch Raňkův of Ježov 1367 Marsilius of Inghen 1371 Marsilius of Inghen (second term) 1378 Guillaume GorranDelalain, p. 52. 1381 Mathieu RegnauldCharles Adrien Desmaze, L'Université de Paris, 1200-1875 (1876), note p. 5. 1383 Jean VoignonAlfred Franklin, Recherches sur la bibliothèque de la Faculté de médecine de Paris (1864), note p. 88. 1393-5 Mathieu-Nicolas Poillevillain de Clémanges (Nicholas of Clamanges)William W. Kibler, Medieval France: an encyclopedia (1995), p. 664. 1395 (October–December), Walter Forrester (future bishop of Brechin)
15th century 1401 (June) Jacques de NouvionAlfred Coville, Gontier et Pierre Col et l'humanisme en France au temps de Charles VI (1934), p. 94. 1403 Pierre CauchonKibler, p. 183. 1405 Gérard de Machet 1409 Jean de BeaumontAlfred Franklin, Recherches sur la bibliothèque de la Faculté de médecine de Paris (1864), p. 91. 1412 Jean Beaupère http://www.stejeannedarc.net/histoire_wallon/wallon_VI-2.php 1428 Pierre Maurice 1430 Thomas de Courcelles 1435 Olavi Maununpoika (Olavus Magni), bishop of Turku 1439 Guillaume Bouillé http://www.stejeannedarc.net/rehabilitation/enquete_1450.php 1442 Jehan Pluyette 1448 Jehan Pluyette 1458 Johannes Versoris 1467 Guillaume Fichet 1468 Johannes Heynlin known as De La Pierre or Lapidanus 1469 John Ireland 1473 Cantien Hue http://www.corpusetampois.com/cle-16-1502epitaphedecantienhue.html 1479 Martin de Delft 1485 Jan Standonck 1485 (October–December) Johannes Molitor http://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/volltexte/4842/pdf/Heinzer_Cod_Donaueschingen.pdf 1486 Gillis van DelftPeter G. Bietenholz, Thomas B. Deutscher, Contemporaries of Erasmus (2003), p. 382. 1489 Jean Lanternant, Johann Lantmann http://134.76.163.162/fabian?Evangelische_St._Nikolaikirche_%28Isny%29 1491 Guillaume Cappel 1492 Bernard Roillet http://www.lemarois.com/jlm/data/g01geoffray.html 1494 Adam Pluyette
16th century 1507-8 Jacques Almain 1513 Girolamo Aleandro 1514? Gilles de Maizières (Aegidius Maserius) 1519 Jean FinetJeanne Vielliard, Instruments d'astronomie conservés à la bibliothèque du collège de Sorbonne aux XVe et XVIe siècles. Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes, Année 1973, Volume 131 lien Numéro 131-2 pp. 592; http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/bec_0373-6237_1973_num_131_2_449963. 1519 Gervasius Waim Scholasticon page 1520 Jean Tixier de Ravisi (c. 1480–1524) 1525 William ManderstonODNB, Manderston [Manderstown], William (c.1485–1552), philosopher and logician. 1528 (March–June) Nicholas BoisselPeter G. Bietenholz, Thomas B. Deutscher, p. 160. 1528 Bertinus Myss 1531 Landéric Maciot 1531 Jean de GagnyKenneth Hagen, Hebrews commenting from Erasmus to Bèze, 1516-1598 (1981), p. 48. 1533 Nicolas Cop 1534 André de Gouveia 1539 Antoine de Mouchy 1540 Claude D'Espence 1540 Simon Vigor 1560 Claude Roillet 1564 Michel Marescot 1581 Jean Boucher Scholasticon page 1584 John HamiltonODNB, Hamilton, John (c.1547–1610/11), Roman Catholic controversialist. 1586 Jean Filesac 1594 Jacques d'Amboise:fr:s:Page:Michaud - Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne (1843) Tome 1.djvu/584 Guillaume Rose, bishop of Senlis Guy de Saint-Paul 1596-1600 John Fraser clerical prior of Beauly Priory 1573–1579, Abbot of Noyon France 1580–1590, Bn 1544, Philorth, Scotland, unanimously elected Rector
17th century 1600-9 John Fraser died 15/16 April (Easter Sunday) 1609 : buried at the Church of the Franciscans, Paris, France 1646-8 Godefroy Hermant http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rhef_0300-9505_1933_num_19_84_2661, p. 362. 1694 Charles Rollin
18th century 1701 Micheál Ó Mordha (Michael Moore, orMoor) Guillaume Dagomer Scholasticon page 1707-8 Balthazar Gibert, also 1721–3, 1733-6Samy Ben Messaoud, L'enseignement rhétorique de Gibert (PDF), p. 97 note 16. 1713, 1717 Michel Godeau http://www.corpusetampois.com/che-18-17140611louis14contregodeau.html Edmond Pourchot, seven times rector Scholasticon page 1719 Charles Rollin (second term) 1748 Jean-Baptiste Cochet Scholasticon page 1789 Jean-Baptiste Dumouchel, constitutional bishop of Nîmes in 1790 http://www.nimausensis.com/Nimes/episcopa/Episcopa.htm
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