Henri Arnaud (pastor)
Henri Arnaud ( born July 15, 1643 Embrun, France, † September 8, 1721 in Schönberg ) was a pastor and Waldensian leader.
Life
Arnaud came from a Huguenot family, who left because of persecution France and settled in Val Pellice. After attending school in Torre Pellice and studied theology at the universities of Basel, Geneva and suffering he was pastor of the Waldensian Church and worked from 1682 in Inverso Pinasca in Chisone. When Duke Victor Amadeus II of Savoy under pressure from the French King Louis XIV in April 1686 the Waldenses gave the command to emigrate, Arnaud made his first community resistance. When he was defeated, he escaped via Geneva to Germany, where he tried to collect the other refugees again. Inspired by Pierre Jurieus announcement of the loss of the (Catholic) " Antichrist " for 1689 and politically supported by William of Orange, he led from August 1689 an expedition of about 1,000 expatriate Waldenses from Lake Geneva from the Waldensian Valleys back, which they reached after two weeks of march and in a months-long guerrilla struggle could hold, and there was also forcibly katholisierten locals largely back turned towards Protestantism. This event has the Waldensian historiography as " glorieuse rentrée " or " Glorioso Rimpatrio " of great importance, although success was ultimately only due to a sudden change of Savoy alliance.
As in 1698 about 3,000 Waldenses were driven out again, Arnaud led them through Switzerland to Germany, where he was able to negotiate in Wuerttemberg, Baden -Durlach and Hesse -Darmstadt their own settlement in a long time yet linguistically and religiously independent settlements. He worked from 1699 to his death as a priest in the Waldensian settlements Dürrmenz ( today part of Muehlacker ) and Schoenberg ( today part of Oetisheim ). When the Duke of Savoy in 1701 called the Waldenses against France to help, Arnaud returned for a short time back in the valleys. In 1710 he published an account of the " Glorioso Rimpatrio " ( Histoire de la glorieuse rentrée des Vaudois dans leur patrie ).
Honors
In a plurality of locations, e.g., in the district of Palm Bach of Karlsruhe, in Morfelden- Walldorf, in Rutesheim -Perouse and Oetisheim -Schönberg, there is a Henri Arnaud road. In Mutschelbach (municipality Carlsbad), in Pforzheim, there is one Henri Arnaud way.
In Oetisheim -Schönberg, the grave plate Henri Arnaud is in the Henri Arnaud Church. The Ötisheimer school bears his name. In the district of Schoenberg the Henri Arnaud House, the home of Henri Arnaud houses, a museum and library of the German forest server agreement.
His former rectory standing in Muehlacker - Dürrmenz. There remember a stele and the Waldensian fountain on the work of the Waldensian leader. Also in Torre Pellice a monument to Arnaud ( the sculptor Davide Calandra ) was established in 1926.