Jacques (Joaquim) Merlin (c. 1480 – 26 September 1541) was a

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and book editor, best remembered for his pioneering two volume collection of church councils, the Quatuor concilia generalia printed in 1524. Jacques was born in Saint-Victurnien. He became a doctor of theology at the

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in 1499. He then taught

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. He died in Paris in 1541 and was buried in the crypt of Notre-Dame.

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