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EDMOND HENRI ADOLPHE SCHERER (1815-1889)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 320 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRI ADOLPHE See also:SCHERER (1815-1889)  , See also:French theologian, critic and politician, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 8th of See also:April 1815 . After a course of legal studies he spent several years in theological study at See also:Strassburg, where he graduated See also:doctor in See also:theology in 1843, and was ordained . In 1843 he was appointed to a professorship in the Ecole Evangelique at See also:Geneva, but the development of his opinions in favour of the Liberal See also:movement in See also:Protestant theology led to his resigning the See also:post six years later . He founded the See also:Anti-Jesuite, afterwards the See also:Reformation an XIXe siecle, in which he advocated the separation of the See also:Church from the See also:State; but he gradually abandoned Protestant See also:doctrine . In thought he became a pronounced Hegelian . Eventually he settled in Paris, where he at once attracted See also:attention by brilliant See also:literary criticisms, at first chiefly on See also:great See also:foreign writers, contributed to the Revue See also:des deux mondes . He was elected municipal councillor at See also:Versailles in 187o, See also:deputy to the See also:National See also:Assembly for the See also:department of See also:Seine-et-See also:Oise in 1871 and senator in 1875 . He supported the Republican party . Towards the end of his See also:life he devoted himself mainly to literary and See also:general See also:criticism, and was for many years one of the ablest contributors to Le Temps . He was a frequent visitor to See also:England, and took a lively See also:interest in See also:English politics and literature . He died at Versailles on the 16th of See also:March 1889 . His See also:chief See also:works are: Dogmatique de l'Eglise reformee (1843), De l'etat actuel de l'E°glise reformee en See also:France (1844), Esquisse dune theorie de l'Eglise chretienne (1845), La Critique et la foi (1850), See also:Alexandre See also:Vinet (1853), Lettres a mon cure (1853), Etudes critiques sur la litterature contemporaine (1863–1889), Etudes critiques de litterature (1876), See also:Diderot (188o), La Democratie et la France (1883), Etudes sur la litterature au X VIII' siecle (1891) .

A memoir of him, by V . C . O . Greard, appeared in 189o . See also an See also:

article by See also:Professor E . See also:Dowden in the Fortnightly See also:Review (April 1889) .

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