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Academy of Sedan
The Academy of Sedan (Fr.: Académie de Sedan) was a Huguenot academy in Sedan in the Principality of Sedan, founded in 1579 and suppressed in 1681. It was one of the main centres for the production of Reformed pastors in France for a hundred years.
History
The Academy of Sedan was modeled on the Academy of Geneva (which is today the University of Geneva), which was founded by John Calvin in 1559. It was organized by the efforts of Françoise de Bourbon-Vendôme, Princess of Sedan, daughter of Louis III de Bourbon, Duke of Montpensier and wife of Henri-Robert de La Marck, Prince of Sedan (the first Prince of Sedan) in 1579. It was initially known as the College of Sedan (Collège de Sedan). In 1601, the National Synod of the Reformed Church of France, meeting in Jargeau, voted to transform the College of Sedan into its Academy for the training of pastors. The Academy of Sedan was suppressed in 1681 as part of Louis XIV's anti-Protestant measures that would climax in the 1685 Edict of Fontainebleau.
Famous Professors
Before the Organization of the Academy
- Mathieu Béroalde, professor of Hebrew, 1573–74
- Louis Cappel de Montgemberg, professor of Theology, 1576
- Immanuel Tremellius, professor of Hebrew, 1576–79
- Austrius Calabrinus, professor of Philosophy, 1579
- Jacques Cappel, professor of Hebrew, 1594
- Moïse Quadratus, professor of physics, 1594
- Robert de Visme, professor of philosophy, 1594
- Giulio Pace, professor of Law, 1595
Professors of Law (one chair)
Professors of Greek (one or two chairs depending on the time)
Professors of Hebrew (one chair)
Professors of Theology (three chairs)
- Daniel Tilenus, 1602–19
- Jacques Cappel, 1602–24
- Aaron Blondel, 1603–05
- André Melvin, 1611–19
- Abraham Rambour, 1620–54
- Pierre Du Moulin, 1621–58
- Samuel Maresius, 1625–36
- Alexandre Colvill, 1619–43
- Louis Cappel, 1633–58
- Le Blanc de Beaulieu, 1645–75
- Abraham Colvill, 1658–67
- José Le Vasseur, 1646–71
- Alpée de Saint-Maurice, 1660–81
- Paul Joly, 1673–76
- Henri Sacrelaire, 1676–81
- Pierre Jurieu, 1673–81
- Pierre Trouillard, 1676–80
- Jakob Abbadie, 1680–81
Professors of Philosophy (two chairs)
- John Cameron, 1602–04
- Arthur Johnston, 1606–23
- Claude Pithoys, 1633–75
- Joseph Pithoys, 1655
- Adam Steuart, 1622–28
- P. Bisterfeld, 1624–26
- Alexandre Colvill, 1627–46
- Étienne Brazi, 1661–81
- Pierre Jurieu, 1671–81
- Pierre Bayle, 1675–81
Professors of Rhetoric (Latin) (one chair)Professors of Mathematics (one chair)
Professors of Physics (one chair)
Directors of Military Exercises
- De Saint-Martin 1613
- Du Gast 1680
- Baron 1681
- Legrand 1681-1685
- also influential was the engineer Jean Errard, who taught in the military academy
Famous Alumni
References
- Charles Peyran, Histoire de l'ancienne Académie réformée de Sedan, thèse présentée à la faculté de théologie protestante, 22 juin 1846, Strasbourg : Veuve Berger-Levrault, 1846 [1], 58 p.
- Extraits de la Chronique du Père Norbert concernant le Collège de Sedan, dans Revue historiques des Ardennes, Mézières : Edmond Sénemaud/impr. F. Dervin, 1867, vol.5, pp. 39–64 [2], puis pp. 166–187 [3]
- Pierre-Daniel Bourchenin, Étude sur les académies protestantes en France au XVIe et au XVIIe siècle (Paris: Grassart, 1882).
- Pierre Congar, Jean Lecaillon et Jacques Rousseau, Sedan et le pays sedanais, vingt siècles d’histoire (Paris: Guénégaud, 1969; Marseille: Laffitte Reprints, 1978)
This article was based on this article on French Wikipedia.
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