Gaston Bonet-Maury
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Parliament of World Religions, Chicago, Sept. 1893.
From left to right: Virchand Gandhi, Anagarika Dharmapala, Swami Vivekananda
, and A. G. Bonet-Maury.(possibly)From left to right: Virchand Gandhi, Anagarika Dharmapala, Swami Vivekananda
Amy Gaston Charles Auguste Bonet-Maury (2 January 1842, Paris – 20 June 1919, Paris) was a French Protestant historian.[1]
He studied at the
Collège Rollin
.
He was fluent in English and maintained cordial links with the
British & Foreign Unitarian Association, who on publication of his Des origines du christianisme unitaire chez les Anglais in 1881 commissioned an English translation. In 1893, Bonet-Maury spoke at the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago delivering the lecture, The Leading Powers Shaping Religious Thought in France.[2] In June 1901, he received an honorary doctorate of Divinity from the University of Glasgow.[3]
Works
- Histoire de la liberté de conscience en France, depuis l'Édit de Nantes jusqu'à Juillet, 1870.
- Des origines du christianisme unitaire chez les Anglais, 1881.
- Early sources of English Unitarian Christianity, by Gaston Bonet-Maury. Revised by the author and translated by Edward Potter Hall. With a preface by James Martineau. London, British & Foreign Unitarian Association, 1884.
- De l'unité morale des grands religions de la terre, 1894.
- Le Congrès des religions à Chicago en 1893, 1895.
References
- ^ "Bonet-Maury, Amy Gaston Charles Auguste". www.ccel.org.
- ^ Barrows, John Henry, The World’s Parliament of Religions: An Illustrated and Popular Story of the World’s First Parliament of Religions, Held in Chicago in connection with the Columbian Exposition of 1893, Volume 2. Chicago: The Parliament Publishing Company, 1893, 1261-1264.
- ^ "Glasgow University Jubilee". The Times. No. 36481. London. 14 June 1901. p. 10. Retrieved 5 January 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
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