Adolphe Monod
Adolphe-Louis-Frédéric-Théodore Monod (21 January 1802 – 6 April 1856) was a French Protestant pastor and theologian. His elder brother was Frédéric Monod.[1]
Biography
[edit]Monod was born in Copenhagen, where his father, Jean Monod (1765–1836; himself the eldest son of pastor Gaspard Joël Monod /1717-1782/ and his wife Suzanne Madeleine Puerari /1739-1799/),[2] was a pastor of the French Reformed church and where Jean Monod met his wife and consequently Adolphe's mother, Louise-Philippine de Coninck (1775-1851), daughter of shipowner Frédéric de Coninck.[3] Educated at Paris and Geneva, Monod began his life-work in 1825 as founder and pastor of a Protestant church in Naples, moving to Lyon in 1827.[1]
In Lyon, Monod' preaching, and especially a sermon on the duties of communicants (Qui doit communier?), led to his deposition by the Catholic Minister of education and religion.[1] Instead of leaving Lyon he began to preach in a hall and then in a chapel.[1] In 1836 Monod took a professorship in the theological college of Montauban, moving in 1847 to Paris as preacher at the Oratoire.[1] He died in Paris on 6 April 1856.[1][4]
Legacy
[edit]Monod was considered by some the foremost Protestant preacher of 19th-century France (e.g. Guillaume Guizot (1833-1892), son of the French statesman and Protestant historian François Guizot (1787-1874)[5] referred to him in an article published in the “Journal des débats politiques et littéraires” (Journal of political and literary debates) on April 11, 1856, i.e. a few days after Adolphe Monod's funeral, as "one of the foremost Christian speakers of his time."[6] He published three volumes of sermons in 1830, another, La Crédulité de l'incrédule in 1844, and two more in 1855. Two further volumes appeared after his death.[1] One of his most influential books was the posthumous, Les Adieux d'Adolphe Monod à ses Amis et à l'Église (1857).
Marriage and issue
[edit]Monod married Hannah Honyman (1799-1868)[7] in Lyon on 2 September 1829. They had seven children,[8] including pastor André John William Honyman Monod (1834–1916), philanthropist and feminist Alexandrine Elisabeth Sarah Monod (1836–1912), Émilie Monod and Camille Monod (1843–1910).
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ "Biography of Jean Monod".
- ^ Gabriel Mützenberg: Jean Monod in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland, 29 August 2007.
- ^ Adolphe Monod (1802-1856) data.bnf.fr.
- ^ "François Guizot (1787-1874)".
- ^ "Guizot on Monod".
- ^ "Hannah Honyman".
- ^ "Hannah Honyman - Monod". Archived from the original on 2017-01-13. Retrieved 2017-01-12.
Sources
[edit]- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- Monod, S., Life and Letters of Adolphe Monod, pastor of the Reformed Church of France, by one of his daughters, London : Nisbet & Co., 1885 — authorised translation, abridged from the original.
- Monod, Adolphe, Adolphe Monod's Farewell to his Friends and to his Church, a new translation by the Rev. Owen Thomas. London, Banner of Truth Trust, 1962.
- Osen, James L., Prophet and peacemaker : the life of Adolphe Monod, Lanham, MD : University Press of America, c1984, ISBN 0-8191-3826-6.
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