The Reformation In England, Volume 1 of 2 by Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné

He became also president of the consistory of the French and German Protestant churches.Īt the Belgian revolution of 1830 he thought it advisable to undertake pastoral work at home rather than to accept an educational post in the family of the Dutch king. After presiding for five years over the French Protestant church at Hamburg, he was, in 1823, called to become pastor of a congregation in Brussels and preacher to the court. At Berlin he received stimulus from teachers as diverse as J.

The Reformation In England, Volume 1 of 2 by Jean-Henri Merle d

When in 1817 he went abroad to further his education, Germany was about to celebrate the tercentenary of the Reformation and thus early he conceived the ambition to write the history of that great epoch. He was profoundly influenced by Robert Haldane, the Scottish missionary and preacher who visited Geneva. Jean-Henri was destined by his parents to a commercial life but at college he decided to be ordained. The ancestors of his father Robert Merle d'AubignÃ© (1755â€“1799), were French Protestant refugees. He was born at Eaux Vives, a neighbourhood of Geneva. Jean-Henri Merle d'AubignÃ© (16 August 1794 - 21 October 1872) was a Swiss Protestant minister and historian of the Reformation.

Jean-Henri was destined by his parents to a.

The Reformation In England, Volume 1 of 2 by Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné