Edmond de Pressensé

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Edmond Dehault de Pressensé (7 January 18248 April 1891) was a French Protestant religious leader.

Biography

He was born in Paris, and studied in Lausanne under Alexandre Vinet. He went on to the University of Halle as a pupil of Friedrich August Tholuck and to Humboldt University in Berlin, where he studied under August Neander. In 1847 he became a pastor in the Evangelical Church at the chapel of Taitbout in Paris.

He was a powerful preacher and political orator; from 1871 he was a member of the National Assembly, and from 1883 a life senator. In 1890 he was elected a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques.

Published works

In 1854 he founded the Revue chrétienne,

References

• HathiTrust Digital Library (published works)