Albert Réville (theologian)

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Albert Réville (1826–1906)

Albert Réville (born November 3, 1826 in Dieppe ; died October 25, 1906 in Paris ) was a French religious scholar and theologian from the movement of liberal Protestantism .

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Réville, the son of a Reformed pastor, studied from 1844 at the universities in Geneva and Strasbourg and received his first pastor's position in Luneray near Dieppe. From 1851 he was pastor at the Calvinist Wallon Church ( Waalse kerk / French Église wallonne ) in Rotterdam . It was in 1862 at the University of Leiden to Dr. theol. PhD and later accepted into the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences . In 1873 he gave up the pastor's office and returned to Dieppe, where he was mainly involved in political life.

In 1880 Réville was appointed professor to the first chair for the history of religion at the Collège de France , established in 1879 . Since the establishment of the religious studies department ( section ) of the École des hautes études in 1886 , Albert Réville contributed very different volumes to the series Histoire des religions (Paris, Librairie Fischbacher ): on the religions of the "uncivilized" ( "Peuples non-civilisés"), the Chinese and the ancient religions of Mexico and Peru . The journal Revue de l'Histoire des Religions was founded 1880th He wrote various articles for the Revue des Deux Mondes , for example the one about the devil .

Réville held the Hibbert Lectures in 1884 . In 1885 he was accepted into the Legion of Honor . His son Jean Réville (1854–1908) was also a theologian and his successor on the chair at the Collège de France; his son Marc Réville (1863–1920) lawyer and member of the National Assembly .

Publications (selection)

  • Essais de critique religieuse. Paris 1860 ( digitized version )
  • Prolégomènes de l'histoire des religions. 4. éd. 1886 ( digitized version )
  • Les religions des peuples non-civilisés. Paris, Fischbacher, 1883 (Histoire des religions; I). 2 vols. ( Digitized I , II )
  • Théodore Parker, sa vie et ses oeuvres . Un chapitre de l'abolition de l'esclavage
  • Nous maintiendrons: lettre au Dr. A. Pierson a l'occasion de ses adieux a sa dernière église (Arnhem 1865). Amsterdam, ED. de la Bibliothèque Wallonne 1996, 1st ed. - (Recherches Wallonnes et Huguenotes; II)
  • Jésus de Nazareth. Etudes critiques sur les antécédents de l'histoire évangélique et la vie de Jésus. Tome premier. Paris, Lib.Fischbacher, 1897
  • Lectures on the origin and growth of religion as illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru. Delivered at Oxford and London, in April and may, 1884. translated by Ph. Wicksteed. London., Williams & Norgate. 1884 ( digitized version )
  • History of the Dogma of the Deity of Jesus Christ. 1878
  • La Religion Chinoise (= Histoire des religions III) 1 volume in 2 parts. Paris, Fischbacher, 1889
  • Un nouveau système de philosophie Allemande. In: Revue des Deux Mondes . XLIVe Année. Troisème Période. Tome Cinquiqème. Bureau de la Revue Des Deux Mondes, Paris 1874
  • Histoire du diable: ses origines, sa grandeur et sa décadence. Strasbourg 1870 ( digitized )
  • Les Religions du Mexique, de l'Amérique centrale et du Pérou. Paris, Fischbacher, 1885 ( digitized version )

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Cf. Volkhard Krech : Wissenschaft und Religion: Studies on the history of religious research in Germany 1871 to 1933. (= Religion and Enlightenment 8). 2002, p. 122, note 5 ( partial online view )
  2. ↑ Jean-Philippe Letter: L'école bruxelloise d'étude des religions: 150 ans d'approche libre-exaministe du fait religieux. 2014 ( partial online view ).
  3. ↑ It was translated from French into English by H. Attwell under the title The Devil, his origin, greatness and decadence , London 1871 ( digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME Réville, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Dieppe
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1906
Place of death Paris