Bouvier, Ami Auguste Oscar

D.D. (hon., Bern, 1884), Swi Protestant (Independent); b. at Geneva, Feb. 16, 1826; educated at the university there, and was ordained 1851; served as mi ionary and pastor in France, London, and Switzerland; became profe or of apologetics and practical theology in the Genevan University, 1861 transferred to chair of dogmatics, 1865. Since 1873 he has also been librarian of the Company of Pastors. He was founder and first president of the committee in Geneva auxiliary to the Evangelical Mi ionary Society of Paris, 1865, and of the Society of Theological Sciences, 1871 made chevalier of the Legion of Honor, 1885. Among his numerous writings may be mentioned Etude sur les conditions du developpe ment social du Christian is me, Geneva, 1851; Le chre'tien, ou I'homme accompli, 1857; Sermons, 1860-62, 2 vols. L'A polo get i que actuelle, 1866; La Revelation, 1870 Les sciences theologiques audix-neuvihne siecle, 1871 Catholiques libe'raux et Protestants, 1873; Epoques el charact eres bibliques, 1873; Les conferences religieuses a Geneve de 1835 a 1875, 1876; L'Esprit du Christian is me, 1877; La faculle de the'ologie de Geneve pendant le dix-neuvihne siecle, 1878; L'ens eigne ment supe'rieur a Geneve de 1559 a 1876, 1878; La Compagnie des Pasteurs de Geneve, 1878; Le Pasteur John Bost, 1881, 5th ed. 1882 (English trans.); Paroles de foi et de liberte, 1882; Le div in d'apres les apotres, 1883; Le 35 Protestant is me a Geneve, 1881 (in English in Modern Review, January, 1884); Nouvelles paroles de foi et de liberte, 1885 La conscience moderne et la doctrine du pe'che, 1886.