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Louis Segond (3 May 1810 – 18 June 1885) was a Swiss theologian who translated the Bible into French from the original texts in Hebrew and Greek.
Segond was born in Plainpalais, near Geneva. After studying theology in Geneva, Strasbourg and Bonn, he was pastor of the Geneva National Church in Chêne-Bougeries, then from 1872, Professor of Old Testament in Geneva.
Biography
Segond was born into a family of modest wealth, the son of Joseph Segond, a shoemaker, and Jeanne Christine Dufour. His father was a French Catholic from Pariset, while his mother was a member of the Protestant Church of Geneva, the denomination he would be baptized into. Segond entered the Academy of Geneva in 1826, where he studied natural sciences. Afterward, he joined the theological department of the University of Strasbourg. During that time, he spent a year and a half working in Bonn and another year in Eisenach. In 1839, he became pastor of the Genevan Church in Chêne-Bougeries.
Segond served as military chaplain of the 2nd Genevan Battalion during the Sonderbund civil war of 1847.