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EDMOND DEHAULT DE PRESSENSE (1824—1891)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 299 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDMOND DEHAULT DE

PRESSENSE (1824—1891)  , French
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Protestant divine, was born at Paris on the 7th of
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January 1824 . He studied at
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Lausanne under Alexander Vinet, and at Halle and Berlin under F . A . G . Tholuck and J . A . W . Neander, and in 1847 became pastor in the Evangelical
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Free Church at the
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chapel of Taitbout in Paris . He was a powerful preacher and a good
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political
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speaker; from 1871 he was a member of the
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National Assembly, and from 1883 a senator . In 1890 he was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences . Pressense laboured for the revival of biblical studies . He contended that the Evangelical Church ought to be
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independent of the power of the state .

He died on the 8th of_April 1891 . He founded in 1854 the Revue chretienne, and in 1866 the Bulletin theologique . His

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works include: Histoire
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des trois premiers' siecles de l'eglise chretienne (6 vols . 1856—1877; new ed . 1887—1889), L'Eglise et la revolution francaise (1864; 3rd ed., 1889), Jesus-Christ, son temps, sa
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vie, son ceuvre (against E . Renan, 1866; 7th ed . 1884),
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Les Origines, le probleme de la connaissance; le probleme cosmologique (1883; 2nd ed . 1887) . See T . Roussel,
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Notice sur la vie et les oeuvres de Pressense (1894) .

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