His 8-volume history of the Reformation describes not only theological and ecclesiastical reform, but also the implication of the Reformation on culture, the arts, philosophy, and science in the centuries which followed.Īlthough John Calvin figures prominently in the History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin, this work is not biographical. D’Aubigne not only conceived of the Reformation in theological and ecclesiastical terms, but defined it as a watershed moment for all of human history.
Published over the span of fifteen years, Jean Henri Merle d’Aubigne’s 8-volume History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin offers a sweeping history of the second generation of the Reformation. Logos Research Subscription for Schools.v Oxford University, and received civic honors from the city of Edinburgh. He frequently visited England, was made a D.C.L. In him the Evangelical Alliance found a hearty promoter. On his return to Switzerland, d'Aubigné was invited to become professor of church history in an institution of the kind, and continued to labor in the cause of evangelical Protestantism. The Evangelical Society had been founded with the idea of promoting evangelical Christianity in Geneva and elsewhere, but it was found that there was also needed a theological school for the training of pastors.
He became also president of the consistory of the French and German Protestant churches.Īt the Belgian revolution of 1830 he thought it advisable to undertake pastoral work at home rather than to accept an educational post in the family of the Dutch king. After presiding for five years over the French Protestant church at Hamburg, he was, in 1823, called to become pastor of a congregation in Brussels and preacher to the court. At Berlin he received stimulus from teachers as diverse as J. When in 1817 he went abroad to further his education, Germany was about to celebrate the tercentenary of the Reformation and thus early he conceived the ambition to write the history of that great epoch. He was profoundly influenced by Robert Haldane, the Scottish missionary and preacher who visited Geneva. Jean-Henri was destined by his parents to a commercial life but at college he decided to be ordained. The ancestors of his father Robert Merle d'Aubigné (1755–1799), were French Protestant refugees. He was born at Eaux Vives, a neighbourhood of Geneva. Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné (16 August 1794 - 21 October 1872) was a Swiss Protestant minister and historian of the Reformation. Jean-Henri was destined by his parents to a.
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