Alexandre Vinet

Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet ( born June 17, 1797 in Ouchy, Lausanne today, † May 4, 1847 in Clarens in Vevey) was a Swiss Reformed theologian and historian of literature. He is regarded as a classic representative of the separation of church and state.

Life

After his studies in Lausanne, he was in 1817 professor of French language and literature at the Basel School on Cathedral Square, 1835 also at the University of Basel in 1837 and professor of theology at the Academy of Lausanne. In 1840 he came out as a result of the transformation of the Vaudois church from the state church, and in 1845 followed by the victory of radical political liberalism in the canton of his resignation as a professor. Alexandre Vinet founded with Charles Monnards separate from the state national church, the Eglise libre évangélique, and became the spiritual father of the Free Church of Vaud. In 1876 Ferdinand Schlöth a memorial bust of Vinet was commissioned for the auditorium of the Museum at the Augustiner Gasse.

Works

• Chrestomathie française (1829 )
• Études sur la littérature française au XIXe siècle ( 1840-51 )
• Histoire de la littérature française au XVIIe siècle
• Études sur Pascal
• Études sur les moralistes aux XVe et XVIe siècles
• Histoire de la prédication parmi les Reformes de France

• Mémoire de la liberté en faveur of cultes (1826 )
• Essai sur la conscience (1829 )
• Essai sur la manifestation of convictions religieuses (1842 )
• Discours sur quelques sujets religieux (1831 ) and Nouveaux discours (1841 )
• Théologie pastoral ou Théorie du Ministère évangélique (Paris: Ches les Éditeurs, 1850)