Auguste Bouvier
Auguste Bouvier (born February 16, 1826 in Geneva ; † November 2, 1893 ibid) was a Swiss Reformed theologian .
Life
Auguste Bouvier was born on February 16, 1826 in Geneva, the son of a pastor . He studied theology at the universities of Geneva and Berlin from 1845 to 1851 and became Adolphe Monod's assistant in the Paris evangelization work, whose daughter Louise he married in 1854. In 1853 he worked as a pastor at the French Church in London , but then took over a pastorate in Céligny the following year and one in the St. Gervais district in Geneva in 1857. In 1861 he resigned his parish and was appointed professor of apologetics and homiletics at the University of Genevacalled; four years later he also taught dogmatics . He died on November 2, 1893 in Geneva.
In his theological direction, influenced by Schleiermacher in particular, Bouvier sought to mediate the so-called Evangelical party, to which he was initially attached, with liberal theology.
Works
- Etudes sur les conditions du développement social du Christianisme (1851)
- Le chrétien ou l'homme accompli (1857)
- Sermons (2 vols., 1860–62)
- L'apologétique actuelle (1866)
- La Chrétienté et la Question sociale (1869)
- La révélation (1870)
- Les sciences théologiques au XIXe siècle (1871)
- L'Esprit du Christianisme (1877)
- Époques et caractères bibliques (1877)
- La faculté de théologie de Genève pendant le XIXe siècle (1878)
- La compagnie des pasteurs de Genève (1878)
- Le pasteur John Bost , esquisse biographique (1881; 5th ed. 1882)
- Paroles de Foi et de Liberté (1882)
- Le Maître des Orateurs populaires: Jésus (1882)
- Le Divin d'après les Apôtres (1883)
- Le protestantisme à Genève (1884)
- Nouvelles Paroles de Foi et de Liberté (1885)
- La conscience modern et la doctrine du péché (1886)
- Theologie systematique (1887)
literature
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Bouvier, Auguste. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 722-723.
- Olivier Fatio: Auguste Bouvier. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Web links
- Publications by and about Auguste Bouvier in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bouvier, Auguste |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss reformed theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1826 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Geneva |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 2, 1893 |
| Place of death | Geneva |