Nicolas-Sylvestre Bergier

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Nicolas-Sylvestre Bergier also Abbé Nicolas Sylvestre Bergier (born December 31, 1718 in Darney , Département Vosges , † April 9, 1790 in Paris ) was a French, Catholic theologian and famous apologist of Christianity against (French) deism and materialism .

Live and act

His family is originally from Flangebouche . His brother Claude-François († 1784), who also lived in Darney, was also active in literature ( Essai sur l'histoire de la société civile ). Nicolas-Sylvestre Bergier studied theology at the University of Besançon and completed his studies with a doctorate in this subject. In 1748 he became pastor in Flangebouche (Diocese of Besançon), in 1764 professor in Besançon and in 1769 Canon in Paris, Canon of Notre-Dame de Paris . He was at times staff at the Encyclopaedia of Denis Diderot , confessor of the brother of Louis XIV. And opponents of Voltaire .

Works (selection)

  • Traité historique et dogmatique de la vraie religion , 12 vols., 1780 ff. (German by JG Beigel, Bamberg 1787–92);
  • Le déisme réfuté par lui-même , 1765 (also in German; against Jean-Jacques Rousseau );
  • La certitude des preuves du christianisme , 2 vols., 1767 (also in German);
  • Apologie de la religion chrétienne , 2 vol., 1769 (also in German; against Paul Heinrich Dietrich von Holbach );
  • Examen du matérialisme , 2 vol., 1771 (also German);
  • Réponse aux conseils raisonnables de Voltaire , 1771;
  • Encyclopédie méthodique. Theology , 3 vols., 1788 to 1790.

literature

  • Ferdinand Janner in Kirchenlexikon , II, 408;
  • Hugo von Hurter , Nomenclator Innsbruck, (1895), III;
  • Biographie Moderne , 2nd edition, Leipzig, P.-J. Besson, (1806), p. 212.
  • Biographie nouvelle des contemporains , Paris, Librairie historique, (1821), p. 378.
  • Ferdinand Hoefer , Nouvelle Biographie générale , Paris, Firmin-Didot, (1853), p. 514

Web links

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