JACQUES See also:

• JACQUES LENFANT (1661–1728)

LENFANT (1661–1728)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• PROTESTANT

Protestant divine, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Bazoche in La See also:

• BEAUCE (Lat. Belsia)

Beauce on the 13th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1661, son of See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

Paul See also:

• LENFANT, JACQUES (1661–1728)

Lenfant, Protestant pastor at Bazoche and after-wards at See also:

• CHATILLON

Chatillon-sur-Loing until the revocation of the See also:

• EDICT (Lat. edictum, from e, out, and dicere, to say, speak)

edict of See also:

• NANTES
• NANTES, EDICT OF

Nantes, when he removed to See also:

• CASSEL
• CASSEL, or KASSEL

Cassel . After studying at See also:

• SAUMUR

Saumur and See also:

• GENEVA
• GENEVA (Fr. Geneve, Ger. Genf, Ital. Ginevra, Late Lat. Gebenna, though Genava in good Latin)
• GENEVA, LAKE OF

Geneva, Lenfant completed his theological course at See also:

• HEIDELBERG

Heidelberg, where in 1684 he was ordained See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister of the French Protestant See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church, and appointed See also:

• CHAPLAIN

chaplain to the See also:

• DOWAGER (from the Old Fr. douagiere, mod. douairiere)

dowager electress See also:

• PALATINE (from Lat. palatium, a palace,)

palatine . When the French invaded the See also:

• PALATINATE (Ger. Pfalz)

Palatinate in 1688 Lenfant withdrew to See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin, as in a See also:

• RECENT

recent See also:

• BOOK

book he had vigorously attacked the See also:

• JESUITS

Jesuits . Here in 1689 he was again appointed one of the ministers of the French Protestant church; this See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office he continued to hold until his See also:

• DEATH

death, ultimately adding to it that of chaplain to the See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king, with the dignity of Consistorialrath . He visited See also:

• HOLLAND
• HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
• HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
• HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
• HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
• HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
• HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
• HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART

Holland and See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England in 1707, preached before See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

Queen See also:

• ANNE (1665-1714)
• ANNE (1693-1740)

Anne, and, it is said, was invited to become one of her chaplains . He was the author of many See also:

• WORKS

works, chiefly on church See also:

• HISTORY

history . In See also:

• SEARCH, or VISIT AND SEARCH

search of materials he visited See also:

• HELMSTEDT

Helmstedt in 1712, and See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig in 1715 and 1725 . He died at Berlin on the 7th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1728 . An exhaustive See also:

• CATALOGUE (a Fr. adaptation of the Gr. KaraXoyos, a register, from Karalyety, to enrol or pick out)

catalogue of his publications, See also:

• THIRTY

thirty-two in all, will be found in J . G. de Chauffepie's Dictionnaire . See also E. and S . Haag's See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France Protestante .

He is now best known by his Histoire du concile de See also:

• CONSTANCE
• CONSTANCE (Ger. Konstanz or Costnitz)
• CONSTANCE, COUNCIL OF
• CONSTANCE, LAKE OF (called by the Romans Lacus Brigantinus or lake of Bregenz, and now usually named in German Bodensee, as well as the " Swabian Sea ")

Constance (See also:

• AMSTERDAM
• AMSTERDAM (NEw AMSTERDAM)

Amsterdam, 1714; 2nd ed., 1728; See also:

• ENGLISH

English trans., 1730) . It is of course largely dependent upon the laborious See also:

• WORK

work of See also:

• HERMANN, JOHANN GOTTFRIED JAKOB (1772–1848)
• HERMANN, KARL FRIEDRICH (1804–1855)

Hermann von der See also:

• HARDT, HERMANN VON DER (166o-1746)
• HARDT, THE

Hardt (1660–1746), but has See also:

• LITERARY

literary merits See also:

• PECULIAR

peculiar to itself, and has been praised on all sides for its fairness . It was followed by Histoire du concile de Pise (1724), and (posthumously) by Histoire de la guerre See also:

• DES

des See also:

• HUSSITES

Hussites et du concile de Basle (Amsterdam, 1731; See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation, See also:

• VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat. Vindobona)
• VIENNA, CONGRESS OF (1814-1815)

Vienna, 1783–1784) . Lenfant was one of the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief promoters of the Bibliotheque Germanique, begun in 1720; and he was associated with See also:

• ISAAC (Hebrew for " he laughs," on explanatory references to the name, see ABRAHAM)

Isaac See also:

• BEAUSOBRE, ISAAC DE (1659-1738)

Beausobre (1659–1738) in the preparation of the new French translation of the New Testament with See also:

• ORIGINAL

original notes, published at Amsterdam in 1718 .