Gérard Roussel

Gérard Roussel ( Latin : Girardus Ruffus , * around 1500 in Vaquerie near Amiens ; † 1550 in Mauléon ) was a French humanist and religious reformer .

Life

Roussel was born near Amiens and was a devoted student of Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples . In the years 1521-22 he published two works by Boëthius and Aristotle . He followed his teacher to Meaux , where he received the parish of St. Saintin and was canon and treasurer of the cathedral of Meaux. In 1524 he was dismissed by Bishop Guillaume Briçonnet for fear of a reaction from the conservatives. Roussel fled France , where he was charged with heresy , and spent a few years in Strasbourg with Wolfgang Capito . In 1535 he returned at the invitation of the French King Francis I and became Bishop of Oléron (1536), where he enjoyed the protection of Margaret of Navarre . As a bishop he preached numerous sermons and emphasized the study of the Bible and the celebration of the Lord's Supper, for which he was condemned by the Sorbonne . Roussel died in Mauléon from his injuries sustained by a Catholic fanatic when he attacked the pulpit from which he was preaching with an ax.

literature

• René-Jacques Lovy: Les origines de la réforme française. Meaux, 1518-1546. Librairie Protestante, Paris 1959.
• Émile G. Léonard: Histoire générale du Protestantisme. Volume 1: La Réformation. Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 1961
• Pierre Miquel : Les Guerres de religion. France loisirs, Paris 1980, ISBN 2-7242-0785-8 .
• Stephan Meier-Oeser:  Gérard Roussel. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 8, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0 , Sp. 857-858.