Gaston Bonet-Maury
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Amy Gaston Charles Auguste Bonet-Maury (Paris
2 January 1842 - Paris
, 20 June 1919) was a French Protestant historian.
He studied at the University of Strassburg, graduating 1867, then was a Protestant pastor at Dordrecht
, 1869–1872; followed by Beauvais
, 1872–1876, and St. Denis, 1877. He then became lecturer, then professor of church history at the newly opened Protestant Faculty of Theology in Paris
in the buildings of 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.
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
2 January 1842 - Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, 20 June 1919) was a French Protestant historian.
He studied at the University of Strassburg, graduating 1867, then was a Protestant pastor at Dordrecht
Dordrecht
Dordrecht , colloquially Dordt, historically in English named Dort, is a city and municipality in the western Netherlands, located in the province of South Holland. It is the fourth largest city of the province, having a population of 118,601 in 2009...
, 1869–1872; followed by Beauvais
Beauvais
Beauvais is a city approximately by highway north of central Paris, in the northern French region of Picardie. It currently has a population of over 60,000 inhabitants.- History :...
, 1872–1876, and St. Denis, 1877. He then became lecturer, then professor of church history at the newly opened Protestant Faculty of Theology in Paris
Protestant Faculty of Theology in Paris
The Protestant Faculty of Theology of Paris was a Protestant institution moved to Paris from Strassburg in 1877 in the buildings of the former collège Rollin, Rue Lhomond....
in the buildings of the Collège Rollin
Collège Rollin
The collège-lycée Jacques-Decour is a school in Paris on the avenue Trudaine.-History:The school was founded as the private collège Sainte-Barbe in 1821, renamed the private collège Rollin in 1830...
.
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.
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.