LENFANT, JACQUES (16611728)

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LENFANT, JACQUES (16611728) , French

Protestant

PROTESTANT

divine, was born at Bazoche in La Beauce on the 13th of April 1661, son of Paul

Lenfant

LENFANT, JACQUES (1661–1728)

Protestant

PROTESTANT

pastor at Bazoche and after-wards at Chatillon-sur-Loing until the revocation of the edict of Nantes, when he removed to Cassel. After studying at Saumur and Geneva,

Lenfant

LENFANT, JACQUES (1661–1728)

completed his theological course at

Heidelberg

HEIDELBERG

, where in 1684 he was ordained minister of the French Protestant church, and appointed chaplain to the dowager electress palatine. When the French invaded the Palatinate in 1688 Lenfant withdrew to Berlin, as in a

recent

RECENT

book he had vigorously attacked the

Jesuits

JESUITS

. Here in 1689 he was again appointed one of the ministers of the French Protestant church; this office he continued to hold until his death, ultimately adding to it that of chaplain to the king, with the dignity of Consistorialrath. He visited Holland and England in 1707, preached before Queen Anne, and, it is said, was invited to become one of her chaplains. He was the author of many works, chiefly on church history. In search of materials he visited Helmstedt in 1712, and

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

in 1715 and 1725. He died at Berlin on the 7th of August 1728.
An exhaustive catalogue of his publications, thirty-two in all, will be found in J. G. de Chauffepie's Dictionnaire. See also E. and S. Haag's France Protestante. He is now best known by his Histoire du concile de Constance (Amsterdam, 1714; 2nd ed., 1728; English trans., 1730). It is of course largely dependent upon the laborious

work

WORK

of Hermann von der Hardt (16601746), but has literary merits peculiar to itself, and has been praised on all sides for its fairness. It was followed by Histoire du concile de Pise (1724), and (posthumously) by Histoire de la guerre des Hussites et du concile de Basle (Amsterdam, 1731; German translation, Vienna, 17831784). Lenfant was one of the

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

promoters of the Bibliotheque Germanique, begun in 1720; and he was associated with Isaac

Beausobre

BEAUSOBRE, ISAAC DE (1659-1738)

(16591738) in the preparation of the new French translation of the New Testament with

original

ORIGINAL

notes, published at Amsterdam in 1718.

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