Claude Frassen

Claude Frassen (1620 – 26 February 1711) was a French Franciscan Scotist theologian and philosopher.

Outside of the order his counsel was sought not only by ecclesiastics but likewise by secular dignitaries, Louis XIV of France, in particular, holding him in high esteem.

The 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia praises its "simplicity of style", "clearness of method", and "subtleness of thought".

The first volume is prefaced with a chronological list and a brief historical and dogmatical account of the different heresies from the beginnings of Christianity to the fifteenth century.

The edition of the Scotus Academicus published by the Friars Minor (Rome, 1900–02, in twelve volumes) was prepared from notes left by the author himself and preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale of Paris.