Academy Sedan

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The Sedan Academy (French: Académie de Sedan ) was a university that existed in Sedan in northern France in the 16th and 17th centuries and was of great importance for the training of the leadership of the Huguenots .

history

As a result of the First Huguenot War , the partially independent Principality of Sedan emerged on the northern border of France in 1563 and was ruled by Reformed princes. In 1579, Françoise de Bourbon, the widow of the first Prince Henri-Robert de La Marck , founded a high school there, initially called the Collège de Sedan . Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, duc de Bouillon , who took control of the principality in 1591, expanded the school by appointing foreign scholars to an academy based on the model of the Geneva academy founded by John Calvin . The aim was to offer university-level training at several faculties. In addition to chairs for the philosophical preparatory course and theology, the main purpose of the academy, two professorships for law were established. However, the papal privilege, which would have been a prerequisite for the use of the title university , was waived.

1601 supported National Synod of the Reformed Church of France in Gergeau the collection to the Academy. Although the principality was not reintegrated into France until 1642, the academy has since been one of the most important training centers for the pastors of the Reformed Church of France.

Since the 1660s in increasing distress from the Roman Catholic rulers, the academy was closed on July 9, 1681 on the orders of King Louis XIV . The closure was a harbinger of the Edict of Fontainebleau , with which the king banned the Reformed Church in France in 1685 and declared its followers to be without rights.

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literature

  • Charles Peyran: Histoire de l'ancienne Académie réformée de Sedan. Berger-Levrault, Strasbourg 1846 (Strasbourg, university, dissertation, 1846; digitized version ).
  • Extraits de la Chronique du Père Norbert concernant le Collège de Sedan. In Revue historique des Ardennes. Vol. 3, Semester 1 = Vol. 5, 1867, ZDB -ID 432192-3 , pp. 39-64 , and pp. 166-187 .
  • Hartmut Kretzer: Calvinism and French monarchy in the 17th century. The political teaching of the Sedan and Saumur academies. With special consideration of Pierre du Moulin, Moyse Amyraut and Pierre Jurieu (historical research; 8). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1975, ISBN 3-428-03470-8 (At the same time: Marburg, University, dissertation, 1974: The political teaching of the Calvinist academies Sedan and Saumur in the 17th century. ).
  • Pierre Congar: Le Collège et l'Académie de Sedan. Société d'histoire et d'archéologie du Sedanais, Sedan 1982.

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