Jacques Sirmond
Jacques Sirmond, pseudonym Jacobus Cosmas Fabricius, was a French scholar and Jesuit.
Simond was born at Riom, Auvergne, France on 12 October 1559. He was educated at the Jesuit College of Billom. After having been a novice at Verdun and then at Pont-Mousson, he entered into the order on 26 July 1576. After having taught rhetoric at Paris he resided for a long time in Rome as secretary to Claudio Acquaviva. In 1637 he was confessor to Louis XIII. He died on 7 October 1651 in Paris.
Works
He brought out many editions of Latin and Byzantine chroniclers of the Middle Ages:- Ennodius and Flodoard
- Sidonius Apollinaris
- the life of St Leo IX by the archdeacon Wibert
- Marcellinus and Idatius
- Anastasius the Librarian
- Eusebius of Caesarea
- Hincmar
- Theodulf of Orléans
- Hrabanus Maurus
- Rufinus and Loup de Ferrières
- his edition of the capitularies of Charles the Bald
- edition of the councils of ancient France.