Edmond Schérer

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Edmond Schérer on a photograph by Eugène Pirou , published 1889

Edmond Henri Adolphe Schérer (also Scherer , born April 8, 1815 in Paris , † March 16, 1889 in Versailles ) was a French Protestant theologian, literary critic and politician.

Life

Schérer, a son of the Swiss banker Eugène Rodolphe Henri Schérer and the Englishwoman Marie Nicole born. Hubbard, at the request of his family, first studied law in Paris from 1833, but then, since he was a staunch supporter of the Francophone revival movement , the Réveil , at his own request from 1836 Protestant theology at the University of Strasbourg , where he received the Baccalaureate in 1839 and the Licentiate ( De Gnosticis qui in Novo Testamento impugnari dicuntur ). In 1841 he was ordained , but initially did not take over any church office, only occasional preaching services in Strasbourg and the surrounding area. Due to a record of the Reformed doctrine ( Prolégomènes à la dogmatique de l'Église réformée ) he was in 1843 in Strasbourg Dr. theol. PhD. Further publications made him so well known that in 1845 he was offered a professorship at the non-state evangelical preaching school, the Oratoire , in Geneva . In La Réformation au XIXe siècle , published by him from 1845 to 1848 , he supported the ideas of Alexandre Vinet and the Église libre évangélique he founded . Soon, however, Schérer turned away from the revival movement and resigned from office in 1849 because he could no longer represent the doctrine of the verbal inspiration of the Bible, which was required at the preacher's school . In the work La Critique et la foi (1850) he reckoned with traditional theology and from now on joined Timothée Colani in the Revue de théologie et de philosophie chrétienne for liberal theology . However, he continued to treasure Vinet and published an extensive biography in 1853.

In 1860 Schérer settled in Versailles and published Mélanges de critique religieuse , in 1864 Mélanges d'histoire religieuse . Together, the works mark the transition from a Christian to an agnostic worldview. Schérer now devoted himself to journalism and literary criticism and wrote for the Revue des Deux Mondes and Le Temps . His reviews of classical and contemporary writers have been collected in multi-volume works and have also been translated into English. From 1871 to 1875 he represented the Seine-et-Oise department in the French Chamber of Deputies , where he joined the left-wing center and temporarily served as its vice-president. In 1875 he moved to the Senate , to which he was a senator for life until his death.

Schérer was married to Marie Nesbitt since 1839 and had two daughters with her, Louise, married to the Swiss physicist Lucien de la Rive since 1867 , and the health activist Jeanne.

Fonts (selection)

  • De l'État actuel de l'Église réformée en France. L.-R. Delay, Paris 1844.
  • Esquisse d'une théorie de l'église chrétienne. LR Delay, Paris 1845.
  • Alexandre Vinet. Notice sur sa vie et ses écrits. M. Ducloux, Paris 1853 ( digitized ).
  • Mélanges de critique religieuse. Cherbuliez, Paris 1860 ( digitized ).
  • Etudes sur la litterature contemporaine. 8 volumes. Lévy, Paris 1863–1895.
  • Diderot. Lévy, Paris 1880 ( digitized ).
  • La Démocratie et la France. Librairie nouvelle, Paris 1883.
  • Melchior Grimm . L'homme de lettres, le factotum, le diplomate. Calmann Lévy, Paris 1887 ( digitized ).

literature

  • Octave Gréard: Edmond Schérer. Hachette, Paris 1890.
  • René Wellek : History of literary criticism 1750–1950: The late 19th century. de Gruyter, Berlin 1977, p. 77 ff.
  • Philippe Vigier: Edmond Schérer, père fondateur de la Troisième République. In: Andre Encrevé, Michel Richard (ed.): Les Protestants dans les débuts de la Troisième République. Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français, Paris 1979, pp. 183-197.
  • Philippe Vigier: Schérer Henri Adolphe Edmond. In: Jean Marie Mayeur , Alain Corbin, Arlette Schweitz (eds.): Les immortels du Sénat, 1875–1918. Les cent seize inamovibles de la Troisième République. Publications de la Sorbonne, Paris 1995, pp. 459-463.
  • David Barrett Peabody: HJ Holtzmann and His European Colleagues: Aspects of the Nineteenth-Century European Discussion of Gospel Origins. In: Henning Graf Reventlow , William Farmer (Ed.): Biblical Studies and the Shifting of Paradigms, 1850-1914. A&C Black, Sheffield 1995, pp. 50-131, here pp. 81-92.
  • André Encrevé: Les controverses d'Edmond Scherer dans la Revue de Strasbourg (1850-1860). In: ders .: L'expérience et la foi: pensée et vie religieuse des huguenots au XIXe siècle. Labor et Fides, Genève 2001, pp. 137-156.
  • Patrick Dubois: Schérer (Edmond). In: Le dictionnaire de pédagogie et d'instruction primaire de Ferdinand Buisson. Répertoire biographique des auteurs. Institut national de recherche pédagogique, Paris 2002, pp. 131–132 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Edmond Scherer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Edmond Schérer  - Sources and full texts (French)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Évelyne Diebolt: Femmes protestantes face aux politiques de santé publique (1900-1939). In: Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire du Protestantisme Français 146, 2000, pp. 91-132.
personal data
SURNAME Schérer, Edmond
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schérer, Edmond Henri Adolphe (full name); Scherer, Edmond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Protestant theologian, literary critic and politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1889
Place of death Versailles