Godet, Frederic

(Louis), D.D. (hon., Basel, 1868), Reformed; b. at Neuchatel, Switzerland, Oct. 25, 1812; educated in his native city, and studied theology at Bonn and Berlin (under Neander); was ordained in 1836; was a istant of the pastor of Valangin, near Neuchatel, for a year; then preceptor of the Crown Prince of Pru ia from 1838 to 1844; from 1845 to 1851 supplied churches in the Val-de-Ruy; from 1851 to 1866 was pastor in Neuchatel. From 1850 to 1873 he was profe or of exegetical and critical theology in the theological school of the National Church of the canton, and since has been in the same capacity in the independent faculty of the Church of Neuchatel. He is the author of His to ire de la Reformation et du Refuge dans le Canton de Neuchatel, Neuchatel, 1859; Comment a ire sur I'evangile de Saint Jean, 1863-65, 2 vols., 3d ed. 1881-85, 3 vols. (Eng. trans, by F. Crombie and M. D. Cusin, Edinburgh, 1877, 3 vols.; translated from 3d ed. by Profe or T. Dwight, 92 New York, 1886, 2 vols.; also translated into German, Danish, and Dutch); do. sur I'evangile de Luc, 1871, 2d ed. 1872 (Eng. trans, by E. W. Shalders and M. D. Cusin, Edinburgh, 1875, 2 vols., revised by John Hall, D.D., New York, 1881); do. sur I'epltre aux Romains, 1879-80, 2 vols., 2d ed. 1st vol. 1883 (Eng. trans, by A. Cusin, Edinburgh, 1880-81, 2 vols., revised by T. W. Chambers, D.D., New York, 1883); do. sur la premiere epitre aux Corinthiens, 1886, 2 vols.; Conferences apologe'tiques, 1869 (Eng. trans, by W. H. Lyttleton, Lectures in Defence of the Christian Faith, Edinburgh, 1881, 2d ed. 1883); Etudes bibliques, 1873-74, 2 series, 3d ed. 1876 (Eng. trans, by W. H. Lyttleton, Old-Testament Studies, Oxford, 1875, 3d ed. 1885; New-Testament Studies, London, 1876, 6th ed. 1885).