Jean Mercier (Hebraist)

Jean Mercier, Latin Joannes Mercerus (Uzès ca.

[1] His students included Philippe du Plessis-Mornay, Zacharius Ursinus, Andrew Melville, and Pierre Martinius who became professor at La Rochelle.

[2][3] Mercier served as Lecteur du Roi from 1546 onwards.

[4] Mercier fled to Venice because of his sympathies with Protestantism, but returned to France in 1570 following the conclusion of the third war of religion, only to succumb to the plague.

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Front page of the Procheiron or Hexabiblos of Constantine Harmenopoulos (1320 - 1380/1385), Lyon 1587 edition by Jean Mercier, translated to Latin from Byzantine Greek .