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After1848, student life became more specifically organized. Associations were created to protect the young.

As it received full recognition, the Protestant community had to provide itself with the tools that would make it part of history and guarantee its future.

For French Protestants, the nineteenth century represented the period of “reintegration” or “rebirth”. After more than a century-long ban, everything or nearly everything had to be rebuilt. The Concordat rule...

Protestant theology had never been taught in Paris, not even at the time of the Edict of Nantes. The transfer of the Strasburg universities to Paris, in the years that...

The history nineteenth century education is known for the profound changes in its government organization ; and these changes affected the influence it had. Fundamental laws went into effect and new...

In the nineteenth century, the importance of the child’s individual character was first discovered. This was mostly due to the influence of J-J. Rousseau, for whom education at its best...

Under the Second Napoleonic Empire, the Protestants were partly responsible for the growing number of vocational schools.

From early on, the Protestant community took the initiative to train schoolteachers, both at local and national levels.

Pietism developed in a Germany ruined by the Thirty Years War (1618-1648). Its founders considered that the two orthodox churches, both Lutheran and Calvinist, had become lifeless institutions with little...

This German theologian has had a considerable influence on XIXth century European Protestantism. His main concern was not that Christianity should not be separated from culture.

For almost a century, the writings of Swiss theologian Alexandre Vinet had a major influence on French-speaking Protestantism.

Professor of philosophy, Raoul Allier gets involved in Social Christianity, in the Dreyfus affair, in the preparation of the law of the Separation of Churches and State, in inciting Protestants...

She was the daughter of Major General Count Frédéric-Henri Walther. She married Jean André, was the mother of Alfred André, and one of the prominent figures in French high society.

Beck was one of the most striking personalities of the Ecole Alsacienne which he directed from 1891 to 1920.

This university teacher tried to match traditional Lutheran principles with the theses of the Aufklärung in order to justify an evangelical faith with arguments drawn from Reason and put it...

Ami Bost is considered as one of the best-known advocates of the Revival Movement. He was feared by those who opposed him because of his “bad temper” and his flair...