NICOLAS

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• DES

DES

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• NICOLAS DES GALLARS [in Lat. GALLASIUS] (c. 1520-c. 1580)

GALLARS [in

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Lat. GALLASIUS] (c. 1520-c. 1580)  , Calvinistic divine, first appears as author of a Defensio of William Farel, published at Geneva in 1545, followed (1545–1J49) by translations into French of three tracts by Calvin . In 1J51 he was admitted burgess of Geneva, and in 1553 made pastor of a country church in the neighbourhood . In 1557 he was sent to minister to the Protestants at Paris; his conductor, Nicolas du Rousseau, having prohibited books in his possession, was executed at Dijon; des Gallars, having nothing suspicious about him, continued his journey . On the revival of the Strangers' church in London (156o), he, being then minister at Geneva, came to London to organize the French branch; and in 1561 he published La Forme de police ecclesiaslique instituee a Londres en l'Eglise des FranQois . In the same year he assisted Beza at the colloquy of Poissy . He became minister to the Protestants at Orleans in 1564; presided at the synod of Paris in 1565; was driven out of Orleans with other Protestants in 1568; and in 1571 was chaplain to Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarre . Calvin held him in high esteem, employing him as amanuensis, and as editor as well as translator of several of his exegetical and polemical works . He himself wrote a commentary on Exodus (156o); edited an annotated French Bible (1562) and New Testament (1562); and published tracts against Arians (1565-1566) . His main work was his edition of Irenaeus (1570) with prefatory letter to Grindal, then bishop of London, and giving, for the first time, some fragments of the Greek text . His collaboration with Beza in the Histoire des Eglises Reformees du royaume de France (158o) is doubted by Bayle . See Bayle, Dictionnaire kist. et crit . ; Jean Senebier, Hist. litteraire de Geneve (1786); Nouvelle Biog. gen .

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