Edmond de Pressensé
Edmond Dehault de Pressensé (7 January 1824 – 8 April 1891) was a French Protestant religious leader.
Biography
He was born at Paris, and studied at Lausanne under Alexandre Vinet. He went on to the University of Halle as a pupil of Friedrich August Tholuck and to Humboldt University in Berlin, where he studied under August Neander. In 1847 he became a pastor in the Evangelical Church at the chapel of Taitbout in Paris.[1][2][3]
He was a powerful preacher and political orator; from 1871 he was a member of the National Assembly, and from 1883 a life senator. In 1890 he was elected a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques.[2] Pressensé laboured for the revival of biblical studies. He contended that the Evangelical Church ought to be independent of the power of the state.[3]
His son Francis de Pressensé was a French politician and man of letters.[4]
Published works
In 1854 he founded the Revue chrétienne,[2] and in 1866 the Bulletin idéologique. His works include:
- Histoire des trois premiers siècles de l'Église chrétienne (6 volumes. 1856-1877; new edition 1887-1889).
- L'Église et la Révolution française (1864).
- Jésus-Christ, son temps, sa vie, son œuvre (against Ernest Renan, 1866).
- Les Origines, le problème de la connaissance; le problème cosmologique (1883).
Several of his works were translated into English by Annie Harwood Holmden:
- Jesus Christ : his times, life, and work (1866).
- The early years of Christianity : a comprehensive history of the first three centuries of the Christian church (4 volumes, 1879).
- A Study of origins : or, the problems of knowledge, of being, and of duty (1883).
- The ancient world and Christianity (1888).[5]
References
- ↑ Winston's Cumulative Loose-leaf Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive ..., Volume 8
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Edmond de Hault de Pressensé (1824-1891) Virtual Museum of Protestantism
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chisholm 1911.
- ↑ The Annual Register, Volume 156 edited by Edmund Burke
- ↑ Most widely held works by Edmond de Pressensé WorldCat Identities
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