Adolphe-Louis-Frédéric-Théodore Monod (21 January 1802 – 6 April 1856) was a French Protestant churchman. His elder brother was
Frédéric Monod
Frédéric Monod (17 May 1794, in Monnaz - 30 December 1863, in Paris) was a French Protestant pastor. He was the older brother of minister Adolphe Monod. He was born citizen of the Republic of Geneva, and obtained the French citizenship in 18 ...
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He was born in
Copenhagen
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, where his father, Jean Monod (Sept. 5, 1765 – April 23, 1836; himself the eldest son of pastor Gaspard Joël Monod /1717-1782/ and his wife Suzanne Madeleine Puerari /1739-1799/), was a pastor of the French Reformed church and where Jean Monod met his wife and consequently Adolph's mother, Louise-Philippine de Coninck (1775-1851). Educated at Paris and Geneva, Adolph began his life-work in 1825 as founder and pastor of a Protestant church in
Naples
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, moving to
Lyon
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in 1827. Here his evangelical preaching, and especially a sermon on the duties of communicants (''Qui doit communier''?), led to his deposition by the Catholic Minister of education and religion. Instead of leaving Lyon he began to preach in a hall and then in a chapel.
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On 2 September 1829 he married Hannah Honyman (1799-1868) in Lyon. They had seven children, including pastor André John William Honyman Monod (1834–1916), philanthropist and feminist Alexandrine Elisabeth Sarah Monod (1836–1912), Émilie Monod, Camille Monod (1843–1910).
In 1836 he took a professorship in the theological college of ]Montauban
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, removing in 1847 to Paris as preacher at the Oratoire. He died in Paris on 6 April 1856.[
Monod was considered by some the foremost Protestant preacher of 19th-century France (e.g. Guillaume Guizot (1833-1892), son of the French statesman and Protestant historian François Guizot (1787-1874) referred to him in an article published in the “Journal des débats politiques et littéraires” (Journal of political and literary debates) on April 11, 1856, i.e. a few days after Adolphe Monod's funeral, as "one of the foremost Christian speakers of his time."][ One of his most influential books was the posthumous]
''Les Adieux d'Adolphe Monod à ses Amis et à l'Église''
(1857).
References
Sources
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* Monod, S.,
Life and Letters of Adolphe Monod, pastor of the Reformed Church of France
', by one of his daughters, London : Nisbet & Co., 1885 — authorised translation, abridged from the original.
* Monod, Adolphe, ''Adolphe Monod's Farewell to his Friends and to his Church'', a new translation by the Rev. Owen Thomas. London, Banner of Truth Trust, 1962.
* Osen, James L., ''Prophet and peacemaker : the life of Adolphe Monod'', Lanham, MD : University Press of America, c1984, .
External links
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1802 births
1856 deaths
People from Copenhagen
French Protestants
French Calvinist and Reformed ministers
French Calvinist and Reformed theologians
19th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
19th-century French theologians