Societies for the promotion of education
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.
Protestant evangelization
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...
The Montauban Faculty of Theology in the 19th century
The faculty was founded in 1808-1810 and trained the majority of the Reformed Church pastors. After a somewhat tentative beginning, studies were reorganized by a decree initiated by Baron Cuvier...
The Faculty of Protestant theology in Paris
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...
Protestant education
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...
Kindergarten schools
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...
The vocational schools
Under the Second Napoleonic Empire, the Protestants were partly responsible for the growing number of vocational schools.
The training of school teachers
From early on, the Protestant community took the initiative to train schoolteachers, both at local and national levels.
Pietism
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...
Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768-1834)
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.
Alexandre Vinet (1797-1847)
For almost a century, the writings of Swiss theologian Alexandre Vinet had a major influence on French-speaking Protestantism.
Germaine de Staël (1766-1817)
Germaine de Staël was a major figure of the pre-romantic period and was herself already a true romantic in outlook. Due to her political standpoint she had to flee several...
Raoul Allier (1862-1939)
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...
Henriette André-Walther (1807-1886)
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.
Jean Théodore Beck (1839-1936) and the special circumstances of the Ecole Alsacienne
Beck was one of the most striking personalities of the Ecole Alsacienne which he directed from 1891 to 1920.
Jean Laurent Blessig (1747-1816)
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 (1790-1874)
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...