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ISAAC DE BEAUSOBRE (1659-1738)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 599 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ISAAC DE See also:BEAUSOBRE (1659-1738)  , See also:French See also:Protestant divine, was See also:born at See also:Niort on the 8th of See also:March 1659 . After studying See also:theology at the Protestant See also:academy of See also:Saumur, he was ordained at the See also:age of twenty-two, becoming pastor at Chatillonsur-See also:Indre . After the revocation of the See also:edict of See also:Nantes he fled to See also:Rotterdam (See also:November 1685), and in 1686 was appointed See also:chaplain to the princess of See also:Dessau, Henrietta See also:Catherine of See also:Orange . In 1693, on the See also:death of the See also:prince of Dessau, he went to See also:Berlin and became chaplain to the See also:court at See also:Oranienbaum, and in 1695 pastor of the French See also:church at Berlin . He became court preacher, counsellor of the See also:Consistory, director of the Maison francaise, a See also:hospice for French See also:people, inspector of the French gymnasium and See also:superintendent of all the French churches in See also:Brandenburg . He died on the 5th of See also:June 1738 . He had strong sense with profound erudition, was one of the best writers of his See also:time and an excellent preacher .

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