Jean-Edmé-Auguste Gosselin (28 September 1787 at Rouen, France – 27 November 1858 at Paris) was a French Catholic priest and ecclesiastical author.
Gosselin studied philosophy and theology at St-Sulpice, Paris from 1806 to 1811; became professor of dogma, while yet a subdeacon, after the expulsion of the Sulpicians from the seminary by Napoleon in 1811; and was ordained a priest in 1812.
Ernest Renan, in his Lettres du Séminaire, describes Gosselin as kind, gentle, pious, prudent, and erudite.
In part superseded by Louis Duchesne's researches, it argued that the popes exercised temporal power over sovereigns during the Middle Ages.
Orestes Brownson, in several articles devoted to it, while admitting its great erudition, attacked its position (adopted from Fénelon), that this power was derived not from divine authority, but from the public law of that period.