Étienne Chauvin

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Étienne Chauvin (born April 18, 1640 in Nîmes , † April 6, 1725 in Berlin ) was a Huguenot pastor, philosopher and newspaper publisher.

Under the protection of the Edict of Nantes he was a Huguenot pastor in Montpellier , later in Bézier , then in Uzès .

On October 18, 1685, King Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in its entirety in the Edict of Fontainebleau (Édit de Fontainebleau) . This deprived the French Protestants of all religious and civil rights. Hundreds of thousands fled within a few months, mainly to the Calvinist areas of the Netherlands , the Calvinist cantons of Switzerland and Prussia ( Edict of Potsdam ).

Étienne Chauvin spent 43 days in Grenoble prison before being exiled from France with his wife and five children.

Étienne Chauvin retired to Rotterdam , where he was a preacher at the Walloon Church for several years .

Forced by the necessity to support himself and his family, he founded a boarding school for young people here, represented Pierre Bayle as professor of philosophy during his illness in 1688 and published a scholarly journal, the Nouveau Journal des Scavant , from 1694 and 1695 dressé à Rotterdam (1694–1698).

In 1695 Friedrich I , Elector of Brandenburg appointed him pastor and professor of philosophy and later inspector of the French grammar school in Berlin , where he enjoyed a considerable reputation as a representative of Cartesianism and as a researcher in physics.

Chauvin was a pastor in Béziers, the birthplace of Jean Barbeyrac , where the two probably met. Chauvin had succeeded Barbeyrac's father, Antoine. It is believed that Chauvin's intercession made a decisive contribution to the appointment of the young Jean Barbeyrac to the French Gymnasium Berlin . In Berlin there was close cooperation and familiarity between Étienne Chauvin and Jean Barbeyrac. This included the fact that Barbeyrac, despite his young age, participated in Chauvin's Berlin scholarly journal, the Nouveau Journal des Sçavants dressé à Berlin parM. , collaborated. After a long friendship, Chauvin became Barbeyrac's father-in-law and proposed him in 1713 for admission to the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin .

Publications

  • Lexicon Rationale, sive Thesaurus Philosophicus (Rotterdam, 1692; new and enlarged edition, Leeuwarden, 1713)
  • Theses de Cognitione Dei (1662)
  • Nouveau Journal des Savants (1694–1698).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Étienne Chauvin (1640-1725) . National Library of France.
  2. ↑ Fiammetta Palladini, Die Berliner Huguenots and the Barbeyrac case: Orthodoxe, 2011, p. 23
  3. ↑ Protocollum Concilii Societatis Scientiarum, Maschienenschriftliche Abschrift, Part 1, 1700-1715, 4.6, in the archive of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, quoted from Sieglinde C. Othmer (June 7, 1941), Berlin and the spread of natural law in Europa, p. 87 , quoted from Giuliano Gasparri, Étienne Chauvin (1640-1725) and his Lexicon philosophicum -, 2018, p. 31
personal data
SURNAME Chauvin, Etienne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-Huguenot pastor, philosopher and newspaper publisher
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1640
PLACE OF BIRTH Nîmes , France
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1725
Place of death Berlin