Jean Garet
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Jean Garet was a French Benedictine
scholar of the Congregation of Saint-Maur.
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which was published at Rouen in 1679. Mommsen
's criticism on his edition of the Variae, which was included in the above work, is very severe: "A work without either skill or learning - Garet took Fournier's text (Paris, 1579) as a basis, and inserted alterations of his own rather than corrections." (Mon. Germ. Hist.: Auct. antiq., XII, cxv). As a preface to his edition Garet wrote a dissertation in which he tried to prove that Cassiodorus was a Benedictine. Migne
followed the Garet edition in Patrologia Latina
, LXIX-LXX. It does not contain the Complexiones, a work discovered later by Maffei
.
Benedictine
Benedictine refers to the spirituality and consecrated life in accordance with the Rule of St Benedict, written by Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century for the cenobitic communities he founded in central Italy. The most notable of these is Monte Cassino, the first monastery founded by Benedict...
scholar of the Congregation of Saint-Maur.
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He was professed in 1647 when he was twenty years old, and lived in the Abbey of Saint-Ouen at RouenRouen
Rouen , in northern France on the River Seine, is the capital of the Haute-Normandie region and the historic capital city of Normandy. Once one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe , it was the seat of the Exchequer of Normandy in the Middle Ages...
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Works
While there he prepared an edition of CassiodorusCassiodorus
Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator , commonly known as Cassiodorus, was a Roman statesman and writer, serving in the administration of Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths. Senator was part of his surname, not his rank.- Life :Cassiodorus was born at Scylletium, near Catanzaro in...
which was published at Rouen in 1679. Mommsen
Mommsen
Mommsen is a surname, and may refer to one of a family of German historians, see Mommsen family:* Theodor Mommsen , great classical scholar, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature* Tycho Mommsen...
's criticism on his edition of the Variae, which was included in the above work, is very severe: "A work without either skill or learning - Garet took Fournier's text (Paris, 1579) as a basis, and inserted alterations of his own rather than corrections." (Mon. Germ. Hist.: Auct. antiq., XII, cxv). As a preface to his edition Garet wrote a dissertation in which he tried to prove that Cassiodorus was a Benedictine. Migne
Migné
Migné is a commune in the Indre department in central France.-References:*...
followed the Garet edition in Patrologia Latina
Patrologia Latina
The Patrologia Latina is an enormous collection of the writings of the Church Fathers and other ecclesiastical writers published by Jacques-Paul Migne between 1844 and 1855, with indices published between 1862 and 1865....
, LXIX-LXX. It does not contain the Complexiones, a work discovered later by Maffei
Maffei
Maffei was a manufacturer of railway locomotives based in Munich, Germany. Perhaps its most famous product was the S3/6 4-6-2 locomotive of 1908.-Foundation:...
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