Jean Garet (c. 1627 atLe Havre – 24 September 1694 atJumièges) was a FrenchBenedictine scholar of theCongregation of Saint-Maur.

He was professed in 1647 when he was twenty years old, and lived in theAbbey of Saint-Ouen atRouen.

While there, he prepared an edition ofCassiodorus which was published at Rouen in 1679.Mommsen's criticism on his edition of theVariae, which was included in the above work, is very severe: "A work without either skill or learning - Garet took Fournier's text (Paris, 1579) as a basis, and inserted alterations of his own rather than corrections." (Mon. Germ. Hist.: Auct. antiq., XII, cxv). As a preface to his edition Garet wrote a dissertation in which he tried to prove that Cassiodorus was a Benedictine.Migne followed the Garet edition inPatrologia Latina, LXIX-LXX. It does not contain theComplexiones, a work discovered later byMaffei.

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•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Jean Garet".Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. The entry cites:
  • Le Cerf de la Viéville,Bibliothèque historique et critique des auteurs de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (The Hague, 1726), 142.

• 1627 births
• 1694 deaths
• French Benedictines
• French Christian monks

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