Adolphe Monod

Adolphe Monod ( born January 21, 1802 in Copenhagen, † April 6, 1856 in Paris) was a Reformed revivalists from French-speaking Switzerland.

Monod was the son of the reformed pastor and writer Jean Monod and his wife Louise Philippine de Koninck. With six years Monod came with his family to Paris, because his father had been appointed as a pastor in the local Reformed congregation. Monod grew up in Paris and studied from 1820 to 1824 together with his older brother Guillaume Monod at the University of Geneva theology. Already during his studies he made the acquaintance of the Reveil and some of its more significant representatives, as Thomas Erskine, Louis Gaussen and Charles Scholl.

Just by the Scots Erskine Monod was converted. The Reformed Church in 1826 sent him to Italy, where he was still in Naples founded a Protestant church in the same year, and this for two years headed. 1828 entrusted to Monod with the office of pastor of the Reformed church of Lyon. As such, he married the same year Hannah Honyman that he had met through Erskine. Together with his wife Monod had seven children.

In Lyon, it came time to considerable difficulties, Monod because more often than " hard-liners " showed. In 1832 he refused to celebrate communion with all Christians present, and justified this communier in his sermon Qui doit? A few weeks later he was dismissed from his post for it. In consultation of like-minded friends Monod founded together with these (in response to his suspension ) has its own independent church, the Église Evangélique de Lyon. The German businessman Hermann Heinrich Grafe, a friend Monod, founded in 1854 according to this example in Elberfeld (now Wuppertal), the first free evangelical community in Germany.

Monod has never called despite its inception, the church established church in question. His basic idea was to renew the community from the bottom up, and make them thereby in the proper sense of the word as " reformed " church. Unlike his colleagues, such as François Olivier Rochat or Auguste Monod rejected the dissident movement. In 1836 he joined the reformed state church again, as these entrusted him with a professorship at the University of Montauban. This office had Monod held for over ten years until he was appointed in 1847 as a preacher of the Reformed Church in Paris.

With his brother Frédéric Monod, who also appeared at this time in Paris, Monod had to endure some theological and political discussions. Frédéric Monod was attributable to the orthodox camp, founded in 1849 together with Agénor Étienne de Gasparin the Union of Églises évangéliques libres de France and was editor of the Archives du Christianisme au XIXe siècle.

Adolphe Monod took in 1846 at the inaugural meeting of the Evangelical Alliance part in London. From the eloquence Monod demonstrated not only by reports of his contemporaries, but also his writings. Even when he fell seriously ill in 1854, he preached bedridden until his death. At the age of 54 years Adolphe Monod died in Paris of liver cancer.