Jacques Reclus

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Pastor Reclus (1880)

Jacques Reclus (born July 27, 1796 in Le Fleix , Dordogne department , † April 8, 1882 in Orthez , Pyrénées-Atlantiques department ) was a French Reformed pastor.

Live and act

Reclus was the son of the gardener Jean Reclus (1760-1848) and his wife Jeanne Virolle (1767-1819). He attended the high school of Périgueux and studied at the University of Bordeaux . Through the mediation of his lecturers, Reclus then got a job as a librarian at the castle of the politician Élie Decazes in Bonzac .

In 1819 Reclus went to the theological faculty of Montauban . After his ordination he worked from December 1821 in a parish in Nîmes ( Gard département ). The following year he moved to Roche-Chalais ; In 1824 he was able to take over the parish of Montcaret .

In 1824 he married Zeline Trigant-Marquey and had fourteen children with her; including the journalist Élie Reclus (1827–1904), the geographer Élisée Reclus (1830–1905) and Onésime Reclus (1837–1916), the engineer Armand Reclus (1843–1927) and the surgeon Paul Reclus (1847–1914).

In parallel to his ministry as pastor, Reclus was also a lecturer at the Theological College of Sainte-Foy-la-Grande . A year after the July Revolution of 1830 , Reclus gave up his offices to work as a pastor in an evangelical parish in Castétarbe.

Jacques Reclus died on April 8, 1882 in Orthez, where he also found his final resting place.

Fonts (selection)

  • La Religion chrétienne exposée d'après la parole de Dieu. K.-Cadaux, Toulouse 1842.
  • Scènes d'une pauvre vie . Pau 1858 ( digitized version ).

literature

  • André Encrevé: Les protestants en France de 1800 à nos jours . Stock, Mesnil-sur-l'Estrée 1985, ISBN 2-234-01815-3 .
  • Jean-François de Bastide: Histoire abrégée des Protestants de France . Toulouse 1933.
  • Gabrielle Cadier-Rey: Le pasteur Jacques Reclus (1796-1882) en quelques lettres. In: Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français 2013, pp. 199–212.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Today part of the Institut Protestant de Théologie in Montpellier
personal data
SURNAME Reclus, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French pastor
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Le Fleix , Dordogne department
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1882
Place of death Orthez , Hautes-Pyrénées department