Chancellor of the university of Paris, known as doctor christianissimus. Gerson represented a turn towards a less intellectual and scholastic, and more faith-driven and mystical atmosphere in the church of his time. He is remembered more for attempting to effect a conciliation of the Great Schism in the papacy than for any philosophical achievements. The principal work is an imitation of Boethius, De Consolatione Theologiae (1418; Gerson was in exile in Melk in Austria from 1417 to 1419).