André Dumas
André Dumas (born December 7, 1918 in Montauban , † June 23, 1996 in La Roche-sur-Yon ) was a French pastor of the Reformed Church and university professor.
Life
Dumas' father, a military doctor , was killed in the final weeks of the First World War . After graduating from high school, André Dumas studied theology in Montpellier , Paris and Basel . In Basel he was a student of Karl Barth , whose dialectical theology strongly influenced him. Dumas did his doctorate with a thesis on Dietrich Bonhoeffer .
When German troops occupied France in 1940, Dumas was sent to the internment camp in Rivesaltes as pastor . He joined the CIMADE (service oecuménique d'entraide) and supported the people interned in the Camp de Rivesaltes . He issued false papers to persecuted Jews and thus helped them to get to Switzerland . For this help he was awarded the honorary title Righteous Among the Nations by the Israeli state after the war .
From 1949 he worked as a pastor in the Reformed parish in Pau and then as a university pastor in Strasbourg .
In 1961 Dumas became professor of philosophy and ethics at the Faculté de théologie protestante de Paris, where he was also dean from 1973 to 1975 . In 1984 he received his retirement . Dumas was committed to ecumenism and campaigned for the protection of human rights .
Fonts (selection)
- Une théologie de la realité: Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Ed. Labor et Fides, Genève, 1968.
- Ces mots qui nous font croire et douter. Ed. œcuméniques, Lyon-Paris, 1971.
- Nommer Dieu. Éditions du Cerf, 1980.
- with Francine Dumas: Marie de Nazareth. Labor et fides, Genève, 1989.
- Cent prières possibles. Editions Cana, 1991, Albin Michel, 2000.
Web links
- Literature by and about André Dumas in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- André Dumas , short biography at Encyclopædia Universalis , accessed January 19, 2014
- André Dumas , short biography at Fédération protestante de France , accessed on 19 January 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ André Dumas on the website of Yad Vashem (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dumas, André |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French pastor of the Reformed Church in France |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montauban |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 23, 1996 |
| Place of death | La Roche-sur-Yon |