ISAAC DE

See also:

• ISAAC DE BEAUSOBRE (1659-1738)

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