Christophe Justel (1580–1649) was a French scholar, known as Christophorus or Christopher Justellus. A librarian, canonist and Protestant, he served as secretary to the French king Henri IV, buying the office for his son Henri Justel (1620–1693).

Works

* ''Nomocanon Photii Patriarchae Constantinopolitani cum commentariis Theodori Balsamonis Patriarchae Antiocheni'' (1614, 1625) * ''Codex canonum ecclesiae universae. A Justiniano Imperatore confirmatus'' (1610–18) later in the 1661 edition by G. Voellus (with Henri Justel) known as ''Bibliotheca juris canonici veteris'' * ''Histoire de la maison de Turenne'' (1645)

External links

Paper by Stephen Massil (PDF)
1580 births 1649 deaths 17th-century French lawyers Canon law jurists Huguenots French librarians 17th-century French writers {{France-academic-bio-stub