Hubert Jedin (17 June 1900, in Groß Briesen, Friedewalde, Silesia – 16 July 1980, in Bonn) was a Catholic Church historian from Germany, whose publications specialized on the history of ecumenical councils in general and the Council of Trent in particular, on which he published a 2400-page history over the years 1951–1975.
He was born in Upper Silesia as one of ten children and studied theology in Breslau, Munich and Freiburg.
He returned to Germany in 1930, to teach Church History at the Catholic faculty of the University of Breslau.
[4] In Rome, he lived at the Campo Santo Teutonico in the Vatican and was thus under the protection of Pope Pius XII during the German occupation.
Jedin issued numerous publications on the council of Trent, which, in his view, determined the relation of Catholics and Protestants for centuries.