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Josse Van Clichtove
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or JOSSE VAN CLICHTOVE (d. 1543), Belgian theologian, received his education at Louvain and at Paris under Jacques Lefebvre d'Etaples. He became librarian of the Sorbonne and tutor to the nephews of Jacques d'Amboise, bishop of Clermont and abbot of Cluny. In 1519 he was elected bishop of Tournai, and in 1521 was translated to the see of Chartres. He is best known as a distinguished antagonist of Martin Luther, against whom he wrote a good deal. When Cardinal Duprat convened his Synod of Paris in 1528 to discuss the new religion, Clichtove was summoned and was entrusted with the task of collecting and summarizing the objections to the Lutheran doctrine. This he did in his Compendium veritatum ... contra erroneas Lutheranorum assertiones (Paris, 1529). He died at Chartres on the 22nd of September 1543.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Josse Van Clichtove'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/j/josse-van-clichtove.html. 1910.
