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interested to learn about him, But a lot was dry and was hard to keep focused reading it, Examines the life of the German monk who led the Protestant Reformation in Europe from its beginning inuntil his death in, Jean Henri Merle dAubignéAugustOctoberwas a Swiss Protestant minister and historian of the Reformation, DAubigné was born at Eaux Vives, a neighbourhood of Geneva, A street in the area is named after him, The ancestors of his father Robert Merle dAubigné, were French Protestant refugees, The life Jean Henris parents chose for him was in commerce but in college at the Académie de Genève, he instead decided on Christian ministry.
He was profoundly influenced by Robert Haldane, the Scottish missionary and preacher who visited Geneva and became a leading light in Le Réveil, a conservative Protestant evangelical movement.
When dAubigné went abroad to further his education in, Germany was about to celeb Jean Henri Merle d'AubignéAugustOctoberwas a Swiss Protestant minister and historian of the Reformation.
D'Aubigné was born at Eaux Vives, a neighbourhood of Geneva, A street in the area is named after him, The ancestors of his father Robert Merle d'Aubigné, were French Protestant refugees, The life Jean Henri's parents chose for him was in commerce but in college at the Académie de Genève, he instead decided on Christian ministry.
He was profoundly influenced by Robert Haldane, the Scottish missionary and preacher who visited Geneva and became a leading light in Le Réveil, a conservative Protestant evangelical movement.
When d'Aubigné went abroad to further his education in, Germany was about to celebrate the tercentenary of the Reformation and thus early he conceived the ambition to write the history of that great epoch.
Studying at Berlin University for eight months, d'Aubigne received inspiration from teachers as diverse as J, A. W. Neander and W. M. L. de Wette. In, d'Aubigné took the post of pastor of the French Protestant church at Hamburg, where he served for five years, In, he was called to become pastor of the Franco German Brussels Protestant Church and preacher to the court of King William I of the Netherlands of the House of Orange Nassau.
During the Belgian revolution of, d'Aubigne thought it advisable to undertake pastoral work at home in Switzerland rather than accept an educational post in the family of the Dutch king.
The Evangelical Society had been founded with the idea of promoting evangelical Christianity in Geneva and elsewhere, but a need arose for a theological seminary to train pastors.
On his return to Switzerland, d'Aubigné was invited to become professor of church
history in such a seminary, and he also continued to labor in the cause of evangelical Protestantism.
In him the Evangelical Alliance found a hearty promoter, He frequently visited England, was made a D, C. L. v Oxford University, and received civic honors from the city of Edinburgh, He died suddenly in. The first portion of d'Aubigne's Histoire de la Reformation History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century which was devoted to the earlier period of the movement in Germany, i.
e. , Martin Luther's time, at once earned a foremost place among modern French ecclestical historians, and was translated into most European languages, The second portion, The History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin, dealing with reform in the French reformer's sphere, exhaustively treats the subject with the same scholarship as the earlier work, but the second volume did not meet with the same success.
Among minor treatises authored by d'Aubigne, the most important are his vindication of the character and the aims of Oliver Cromwell, and his sketch of the trendings of the Church of Scotland.
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