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Edmond Dehault de Pressensé (January 7, 1824 - April 8, 1891), was a French Protestant leader.
He was born at Paris, and studied at Lausanne under Alexandre Vinet. He went on to the University of Halle and Humboldt University, Berlin under Friedrich August Tholuck and August Neander, and in 1847 became a pastor in the Evangelical Free Church at the chapel of Taitbout in Paris.
He was a powerful preacher and political orator; from 1871 he was a member of the National Assembly, and from 1883 a senator. In 1890 he was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences. Pressensé laboured for the revival of biblical studies. He contended that the Evangelical Church ought to be independent of the power of the state.
In 1854 he founded the Revue chrêtienne, and in 1866 the Bulletin Idéologique. His works include: Histoire des trois premiers siècles de l'église chrêtienne (6 vols. 1856-1877; new ed. 1887-1889), L'Eglise ella révolution française (1864), Jesus-Christ, son temps, sa vie, son ceuvre (against Ernest Renan, 1866), Les Origines, le problème de la connaissance; le problème cosmologique (1883)..
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- This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.