Academy of Sedan
The Academy Sedan ( French: Académie de Sedan) was a college that existed in the 16th and 17th century in northern France Sedan and had great importance for the formation of the leadership of the Huguenots.
History
As a result of the First Huguenot War, the semi-independent principality of Sedan was originated in 1563 on the northern border of France, which was ruled by the reformed princes. 1579 founded Françoise de Bourbon, widow of the first Prince Henri -Robert de La Marck, where a high school, initially known as the Collège de Sedan. Henri de La Tour d' Auvergne, duc de Bouillon, who took over the rule in the Principality in 1591, the school built by the appointment of foreign scholars to an academy modeled after the Academy founded by John Calvin Geneva. The claim was to offer a university and completed at several faculties. In addition to chairs of the preparatory studies and philosophical theology, the main purpose of the Academy, therefore, two professors of law were established. On the papal privilege that would have been a prerequisite for keeping the designation University, but was waived.
1601 supported the national synod of the Reformed Church of France in Gergeau the collection to the Academy. Although the principality was annexed to France only in 1642, the Academy has since been one of the main training centers for the pastor of the Reformed Church of France.
Since the 1660 -ies in increasing distress by the Roman Catholic rulers, the Academy was closed on July 9, 1681 by order of King Louis XIV. The closure was a harbinger of the Edict of Fontainebleau, where the king in 1685, the Reformed Church in France banned and their supporters declared rights.
Famous lecturers
Famous students
- Samuel Bochart
- Abraham de Moivre
- Charles Drelincourt the Elder
- Frederick V (Pfalz )
- Joachim Sigismund of Brandenburg
- John VII (Nassau- Siegen)
- Louis Philippe (Pfalz - simmering )