Timothée Colani

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Timothée Colani

Timothée Colani (born January 29, 1824 in Lemé ( Département Aisne ), † September 2, 1888 in Grindelwald ) was a French Protestant theologian , preacher and writer .

Life

Timothée Colani was a son of Antoine Colani and Louise Née, who came from the Engadine and worked as pastor in Lemé. He spent part of his youth in French-speaking Switzerland and Germany . He completed part of his school days with the Moravian Brethren in Korntal in Württemberg . He then completed his studies at the theological faculty in Strasbourg and later worked there as a popular preacher. In 1847 he was awarded a licentiate because of an award thesis on David Friedrich Strauss ' Life of Jesus that was awarded by this faculty . Together with Eduard Reuss , Édouard Cunitz , Edmond Schérer and Kayser, he founded the Revue de théologie et de philosophie chrétienne , which was groundbreaking for French Protestantism through its critical-scientific attitude and the introduction of the results of German science , which he - since 1858 under Title Nouvelle revue de théologie - published until 1869. The magazine counted the most respected liberal Protestant theologians in France among its collaborators. For this journal Colani provided numerous valuable, mostly historical-theological treatises, among which the thorough discussion of Ernest Renan's Vie de Jésus caused a sensation.

Colani was the leader of the liberal party ( Nouvelle école ) within the Protestant Church in France and in 1861 founded the Union protestante libérale , an association of the ecclesiastical liberal party in Alsace . Also in 1861 he was appointed professor of French literature at the Protestant seminary. From 1852 he was vicar and from 1862 pastor at the French parish of the St. Nicholas Church in Strasbourg . When he was appointed professor of practical theology at the Strasbourg theological faculty in 1864, despite opposition from the Orthodox party, he resigned from his pastoral office. On October 29, 1865, he married Pepita Gauthey, the daughter of a Swiss and a Spaniard.

After Colani had made himself known through his sermons, his work Jésus-Christ et les croyances messianiques de son temps (Strasbourg 1864) and numerous contributions to the Revue des Deux Mondes , he retired to France in 1870 as a result of the war events and turned to become more of the daily politics. Since then, having resigned from the clergy, he was active as leader of the liberal party at the General Synod of the Reformed Church of France , which met in Paris in June and July 1872 . There he stood up for the threatened freedom of belief and conscience. In 1875 he settled permanently in Paris as a writer and librarian for the Sorbonne and once again drew attention to himself through his contributions in literary and political newspapers, in particular the Temps and La République française published by Léon Gambetta . He died on September 2, 1888 at the age of 64 in Grindelwald.

Colani's sermons were collected as Sermons prêchés à Strasbourg (2 vols., Strasbourg 1857–60; German by August Victor Richard, Dresden 1858) and published as Nouveaux sermons (Strasbourg 1860). After his death, the Essais de critique historique, philosophique et littéraire (Paris 1895) appeared. His daughter Madeleine Colani made a name for herself as an archaeologist .

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SURNAME Colani, Timothée
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French theologian, preacher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Lemé ( Aisne department )
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 1888
Place of death Grindelwald