Daniel de Superville (1657–1728)

Daniel de Superville ( the Elder), Daniel de Superville Père ( Father ) (* August 1657 in Saumur, † June 9, 1728 in Rotterdam) was a French Reformed theologian and author, who had to flee to the Netherlands and there as pastor the Walloon Church at Rotterdam worked.

Life

Daniel de Superville came from a Huguenot family of academics who originally came from Béarn. His grandfather and his father Jean Jacques were both doctors. The father died in France, her mother Marthe, born Pilet ( * 1663 in Nantes), fled after the repeal of the Edict of Nantes by the Edict of Fontainebleau in 1686 in the Netherlands, where she died in 1719.

After finishing school in his home town, he studied from 1677 until the death of his father in 1679 in Geneva, philosophy and theology. 1683 he was appointed to the Reformed pastor in Loudun, but had to flee in 1685. He came with his wife Elisabeth, née de Monnery first to Maastricht. On January 13, 1686 he was vicar, later pastor in Rotterdam. He built up the Walloon church in Rotterdam and leaned several calls, so to London, Berlin and Hamburg, from.

Superville worked in various fields for the French refugees. He sat down for the remaining Protestants in France, which were often sentenced to the galleys, and tried to organize their ransom. In the negotiations for the Treaty of Utrecht, he tried to obtain favorable terms for the Protestants in France.

In poor health, he requested and received for January 30, 1724 his retirement with a pension of the city of Rotterdam.

Super Villes sermons were famous and appeared several times in print, as well as its exploration of the Lord's Supper, 1728 Johann Gottfried Lessing translated into German.

Family

He was married twice. 1683 he had married in France Elisabeth de Monnery. With her he had two children. She died in 1686 shortly after the arrival in Rotterdam. Also, both children died before Daniel de Superville 1694 Catherine van married Armeiden. With her he had seven children, of whom survived him three sons and two daughters. On July 18, 1709 they were citizens of the Dutch Republic.

The children were:

• Catharine ( baptized April 18, 1696 )
• Emilie ( October 30, 1698 )
• Daniel (13 June 1700)
• Jean (1 September 1702)
• Elisabeth Christine (June 8, 1704)
• Jacques Pierre (21 September 1708)

His son Daniel de Superville ( the younger) succeeded him as pastor of the Walloon church in Rotterdam.

His daughter Emilie married Pierre Humbert, a merchant from Geneva, who had settled in 1706 as a bookseller and publisher in Amsterdam. Their son Jean Humbert de Superville (1734-1794) was a portrait painter. His son, Jean Emile Humbert (1771-1839) was a Dutch Lieutenant Colonel and is considered the modern discoverer of Carthage; his son David Pierre Giottino Humbert de Superville was an artist and art historian ( Essai sur les signes inconditionnels dans l'art ).

Daniel de Villes Super nephew, the son of his brother Jacques de Superville, merchant in Rotterdam, who was also named Daniel de Superville, became a physician and founding chancellor of the University of Erlangen.

Works

• Sermons sur divers textes de l' écriture sainte.

• Éléments you christianisme ou abrégé of veritez et des devoirs de la religion chrétienne, à l' usage of plus petits enfans.
• Le vrai ou Traité de la sainte Communiant Cène. Rotterdam 1718 ( often wrongly attributed to his son. )