Pressense, Edmond

(Dehault) de, D.D. {hon., • Breslau 1869, Montauban 1876, Edinburgh 1884), French Protestant; b. in Paris, Jan. 24, 1824; studied arts at the University of Paris; theology under Vinet at Lausanne (1842-45), and under Tholuck and Neander at Halle and Berlin (1846- 47); was pastor of the Free Evangelical Congregation of the Taitbout at Paris, 1847-70; deputy to the National A embly from the Department of the Seine, 1871-76; elected a life senator of France, 1883. He is president of the Synodical Commi ion of the Free Church of France, in whose organization he took a prominent part, and active in the Evangelical Alliance and in the evangelization of France. He is a chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Since 1854 he has edited the Revue chre'tienne, Paris, which he founded. Of his numerous publications may be mentioned, Conferences sur le christian is me dans son application aux questions sociales, Paris, 1849; Du catholic is me en France, 1851; Le Re'dempteur, 1854, 2d ed. 186- (English trans., The Redeemer, Discourses, Edinburgh, 1864, Boston, 1867; German trans., Der Erlbser, Gotha, 1883; also in Swedish and Dutch); La Famille chre'tienne, 1856, 2d ed. 18— (German trans., Leipzig, 1864); His to ire des trois premiers siecles de I'Eglise chre'tienne, 1858-77, 4 vols. (German trans, by Ed. Fabarius, Leipzig, 1862-78, 6 parts; English trans, by Annie Harwood, London and New York, 1869-78, 4 vols.); Discours religieux, 1859; L'Ecole critique et Jesus Christ, 1863; Le pays de VEvangile, 1864, 3d ed. 187- (English trans., The. Land of the Gospel, Notes of a Journey in the East, London, 1865); L'Eglise et la Revolution francaise, 1864, 2d ed. 1867 (English trans., Religion and the Reign of Terror, or, The Church during the French Revolution, trans, by J. P. Lacroix, New York, 1868; byT. Stroyau, London, 1869); Jesus Christ, son temps, sa vie, son azuvre, 1866, 7th ed. 1884 (English trans, by Annie Harwood, London, 1866, 4th ed. 1871; German trans, by Ed. Fabarius, Halle, 1866); Etudes e'vange'liques, 1867-68, 2 series (English trans, by Annie Harwood, Mystery of Suffering, and other Discourses, L 184 ondon, 1868; German trans., Evangel is che Studien, Halle, 1869, 2d ed. 1884); La vraie Liberie (four discourses), 1869; Rome and Italy at the Opening of the (Ecumenical Council (trans, from the French), New York, 1870; Le Concile du Vatican, son his to ire et ses consequences politiques et religieuses, 1872 (German trans, by Ed. Fabarius, Das Vatican is che Concil, Nordlingen, 1872); La liberie' religieuse en Europe depuis 1870, 1874; Le devoir, 1875; La question eccle's iastique en 1877, 1878; L'apos to lat mi ionnaire, 1879; Etudes contemporaries, 1880 (English trans, by A. H. Holmden, Contemporary Portraits, New York, 1880) Les origines, 1882 (English trans., Study of Origins Problems of Being and Duty, London, 1883; German trans, by Ed. Fabarius, Die Urspriinge, Halle, 1884).