Isaac de Beausobre

Isaac Beausobre ( born March 8, 1659 Niort, † June 5, 1738 in Berlin) was a French theologian who is best known for his history of Manichaeism today.

After studying at the Protestant Academy of Saumur, he was ordained at the age of 22 years and then a pastor in Chatillon -sur- Indre. After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes he fled in November 1685 to Rotterdam in the Netherlands. In 1686 he was the minister of Henriette Catharina of Orange- Nassau in Dessau.

1693 he went to Berlin, where he eventually became a royal court minister, director of the " Maison français ", a hospice for the French colony of French secondary school inspector and superintendent of the Huguenot communities in Brandenburg.

Long importance Isaac Beausobre ago through all its history of Manichaeism. He suspected the first that the Manichean "Book of Giants" goes back to the book known as the guard part of the 1st Book of Enoch. Even WB Henning, one of the authorities in the field, calls his work in 1943 with great respect, " one of the best books ever written on Manichaeism ."

Of his other works posthumously published a history of the Reformation and a French translation of the translation of the New Testament of Luther.

Isaac Beausobre is the father of the writer Ludwig Beausobre ( 1690-1753 ).

Works

• Histoire Critique de Manichee et du Manichéisme. 2 volumes, Amsterdam in 1734 and 1739 reprint. Zentralantiquariat the GDR, Leipzig 1970.
• Histoire De La Réformation, Ou Origine Et Progres You Lutheranisme, Dans l' Empire & les États de la Confession d' Augsbourg, depuis 1517 jusqu'en in 1530. 4 volumes, Guard, Berlin 1785 f
• Le Nouveau Testament de notre Seigneur Jesus Christ. Traduit en françois par Mrs. Beausobre & Lenfant. Germanized by D. Martin Luthern. Decker, Basel 1746.