Jacques Reclus (27 July 1796 – 8 April 1882) was a French

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minister.

Life

Following studies in

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, he worked as a

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at Château de Bonzac, home of

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(1780-1860), minister of

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. From 1819 he studied

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, becoming ordained as pastor at Nimes in December 1821. Afterwards he served as a minister in

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(1822), then

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(1824). In June 1831 he resigned as pastor and instructor at the Protestant college in

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in order to head an independent

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community in Castétarbe. In 1850 he founded a home for the aged in

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Family

Reclus was the father of fourteen children who survived beyond infancy, including five sons who gained distinction during their careers: *

Élie Reclus Élie Reclus (; 1827–1904) was a French ethnographer and anarchist. Élie Reclus was the oldest of five brothers, born to a Protestant minister and his wife. His middle three brothers, including the well known anarchist Élisée Reclus, all b ...

(1827-1904),

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and political activist *

Élisée Reclus Jacques Élisée Reclus (; 15 March 18304 July 1905) was a French geographer, writer and anarchist. He produced his 19-volume masterwork, ''La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes'' ("Universal Geography"), over a period of ...

(1830-1905),

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and political activist *

Onésime Reclus Onésime Reclus (22 September 1837 – 30 June 1916) was a French geographer who specialized in the relations between France and its colonies. In 1880 he coined the term "Francophonie" as a means of classification of peoples of the world, being ...

(1837-1916), geographer *

Armand Reclus Armand refer to: People * Armand (name), list of people with this name *Armand (photographer) (1901–1963), Armenian photographer *Armand (singer) (1946–2015), Dutch protest singer *Sean Armand (born 1991), American basketball player *Armand, ...

(1843-1927), geographer and explorer *

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(1847-1914), surgeon

Publications

* ''Scènes d’une pauvre vie''; Pau 1858.

References

Les Protestants by André Encrevé
(biography in French) * Parts of this article are based on an equivalent article at the

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, namely: Bulletin du Centre d’Étude du Protestantisme Béarnais, numéro 40 ; décembre 2006. {{DEFAULTSORT:Reclus, Jacques French Calvinist and Reformed ministers People from Dordogne 1796 births 1882 deaths

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