Edmond de Pressensé

Edmond Dehault de Pressensé (7 January 1824Template:Snd8 April 1891) was a French Protestant religious leader.

Biography

He was born in Paris, and studied in 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.<ref>Winston's Cumulative Loose-leaf Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive ..., Volume 8</ref><ref name=II>Edmond de Hault de Pressensé (1824-1891) Virtual Museum of Protestantism</ref>Template:Sfn

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.<ref name=II/> Pressensé laboured for the revival of biblical studies. He contended that the Evangelical Church ought to be independent of the power of the state.Template:Sfn

His son Francis de Pressensé was a French politician and man of letters.<ref>The Annual Register, Volume 156 edited by Edmund Burke</ref>

Published works

In 1854 he founded the Revue chrétienne,<ref name=II/> and in 1866 the Bulletin idéologique. His works include:

• L'Immaculée conception: histoire d'un dogme Catholique-Roman (1855)
• 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 have been translated into English:

• The Immaculate Conception (1857) translated by Adolf Zytogorski
• Jesus Christ: his times, life, and work (1866) translated by Annie Harwood Holmden
• The early years of Christianity: a comprehensive history of the first three centuries of the Christian church (4 volumes, 1879) translated by Annie Harwood Holmden
• A Study of origins: or, the problems of knowledge, of being, and of duty (1883) translated by Annie Harwood Holmden
• The ancient world and Christianity (1888) translated by Annie Harwood Holmden<ref>Most widely held works by Edmond de Pressensé WorldCat Identities</ref>

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• HathiTrust Digital Library (published works)