Théodore Tronchin (theologian)

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Théodore Tronchin 1657

Théodore Tronchin , Latinized Theodorus Tronchinus , (born April 17, 1582 in Geneva , † November 19, 1657 ibid) was a Geneva Reformed theologian and orientalist . He was the son of Rémi Tronchin (* 1539 in Troyes, † 1609 in Geneva), a Huguenot officer who fled to Geneva after the massacre on St. Bartholomew's Night.

Life

Tronchin studied theology in Basel (1600), Geneva (1602), Heidelberg (1604 to 1606), Franker and Leiden . In 1606 he became professor of Hebrew at the Geneva Academy , 1608 preacher (pastor) in Geneva and in 1618 professor of theology. From 1610 to 1615 he was rector of the academy. From 1649 to 1657 he was dean of the Compagnie des Pasteurs in Geneva.

In 1618 he was sent to the Dordrecht Synod with Giovanni Diodati as a representative of Geneva . He stood up for the teaching of John Calvin , more precisely the then controversial doctrine of predestination , and against the Remonstrants (Arminians). He was an opponent of the universalism of salvation advocated by Moyse Amyraut .

In 1632 he became an army chaplain in the army of Henri II. De Rohan (whose confessor he was) and took part in the campaign in Valtellina . In 1620 he published a reply to the attack by the Jesuit Pierre Cotton ( Genève plagiaire 1618) on the Geneva translation of the Bible.

In 1607 he married Théodora Rocca, the daughter of the shopkeeper Jean-Baptiste Rocca, sister of Etienne Rocca (1608–1696) and Jean Rocca (1616–1685) and the adopted daughter of Théodore de Bèze . Tronchin inherited the de Bèze archive through her. He was the father of the theologian Louis Tronchin . His daughter Renée married the printer Pierre Chouet and was the mother of the theologian Jean-Robert Chouet .

Fonts

  • Cotton plagiaire ou la vérité de Dieu et la fidélité de Genève, maintenue contre les accusations de P. Cotton, jesuite, contre la Bible de Genève. Geneva 1620.
  • De bonis operibus. 1628.
  • Oratio funebris de Henrico duce Rohani. 1638.
  • Iudicium Ecclesiae & Academiae Genevensis, De Concordis Ecclesiasticae inter Evangelicos studio. 1655.
  • De peccato originali. 1658.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge ; according to the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland 1615 to 1657
  2. ↑ A businessman and politician in Geneva, who was temporarily the first Syndic in Geneva and thus held the highest office in the state
personal data
SURNAME Tronchin, Théodore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tronchinus, Theodorus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Reformed theologian, orientalist and rector of the Geneva Academy
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1582
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1657
Place of death Geneva