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
  1. Winston's Cumulative Loose-leaf Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive ..., Volume 8
  2. Edmond de Hault de Pressensé (1824-1891) Virtual Museum of Protestantism
  3. Chisholm 1911.
  4. The Annual Register, Volume 156 edited by Edmund Burke
  5. Most widely held works by Edmond de Pressensé WorldCat Identities
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Pressensé, Edmond Dehault de". Encyclopædia Britannica. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 299.
  • HathiTrust Digital Library (published works)
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