Daniel Archinard

Daniel Archinard (born September 8, 1698 in Geneva , † December 29, 1755 in Braunschweig ) was a German Reformed pastor .

Life

The son of the shoemaker André Archinard, who was a Huguenot refugee, and his wife Elisabeth (née Gautier) probably studied at the Reformed Academy in Lausanne from 1715 . In 1717 he moved to his hometown. From 1721 to 1724 he studied theology at the University of Marburg ; In 1724 he passed his exam there. On November 19 of that year he was in Hesse-Homburg ordained . However, he did not accept a pastorate there; he held lectures at the Reformed Academy in Geneva from 1725 to 1728 . In 1728 Archinard finally accepted a pastor's post in the French Reformed parish of Copenhagen and probably worked there until 1732. The next year he became pastor in Schwabach ; 1736 pastor in the parishes of Leckringhausen and Wolfhagen . In Hofgeismar and Schöneberg he exercised the pastoral office from 1741 to 1745. He then served the Reformed community in Braunschweig, where he stayed until his death. Daniel Archinard remains known to posterity as an outstanding preacher.

Works

• L'Exellence du ministère evangelique, au sermon inaugural (Matt. 5, 14-16). Destiné pour le jour d'installation dans la charge de pasteur de l'eglise francoise de Hofgeismar. Cassel 1742.
• Les voeux ardens du pasteur evangelique a son troupeau ou sermon d'entree sur les paroles de St. Paul. Keitel, Brunswick 1744, OCLC 257500029 .

literature

• Erich Wenneker :  Archinard, Daniel. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 21, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-110-3 , Sp. 27-28.
• Friedrich Brandes : The Huguenot Colony in Braunschweig. Magdeburg 1897.
• Gerhard Bätzing : Pastor history of the church district Wolfhagen from the beginning to 1968. Marburg 1975.