Isaac de Beausobre

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Isaac de Beausobre as preacher to the French community in Berlin

Isaac de Beausobre (8 March 1659 – 5 June 1738) was a French

Protestant churchman, now best known for his two-volume history of Manichaeism
, Histoire Critique de Manichée et du Manichéisme.

Life

Beausobre was born at Niort, Deux-Sèvres. After studying theology at the Protestant Academy of Saumur, he was ordained at the age of twenty-two, becoming pastor at Châtillon-sur-Indre. After the revocation of the edict of Nantes he fled to Rotterdam (November 1685), and in 1686 was appointed chaplain in Oranienbaum to the princess of Anhalt-Dessau, Henrietta Catherine of Orange-Nassau.

In 1693, on the death of

Brandenburg.[1]

He had strong sense with profound erudition, as he was one of the best writers of his time and an excellent preacher.[1]

Family

Beausobre was married twice. By his first wife he had a son, Charles Louis de Beausobre (1690–1753), who became a pastor and theologian, and a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin. By his second wife, Charlotte Schwarz, he had another son, Louis de Beausobre (1730–1783), who became a philosopher and political economist, and also a member of the Academy of Sciences.

Bibliography

  • Beausobre, Isaac de (1734). Histoire critique de Manichée et du manicheisme. Vol. 1. Amsterdam: J. Frederic Bernard.; 2 (1739)

References

Attribution:  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Beausobre, Isaac de". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 599.

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