Jakob Abbadie

Jacques Abbadie, James, Jacobus or Jacob Abbadie ( May 3, 1654 Nay (Pyrénées - Atlantiques), Béarn, † September 25, 1727 in Mary-le -Bone, London) was a French Reformed theologian and apologetic writer.

Life

After the study of the then existing Reformed Academies of Sanmur and Sedan in France doctorate Abbadie at the age of 17 years as a doctor of theology. He began his work in Paris " La vérité de la religion chrétienne " (the truth of the Christian religion ), and Count d' Espence, the envoy of the Elector Frederick William persuaded him to go to Berlin to the spiritual direction of the forming to take over the French colony. So he moved in 1680 - even before the redemption of the Edict of Nantes - to Berlin, where he worked as a theologian of the Reformed church. He gained access to the Great Elector, and was instrumental in the adoption of the Edict of Potsdam in 1685. In the same year, the Elector sent him to Holland to recruit artisans who should build factories in Brandenburg. In Berlin he finished his work " La vérité de la religion chrétienne " whose last volume was printed in 1689. The work was translated into German and English. Although it contained anti-Catholic polemics and was written by a " heretic ", it was also read by many Catholics, even at the court of Louis XIV After the Great Elector had died, he was followed in 1688 by the Marshal Schomberg to England. Here he wrote his treatise " L'art de se soi - même ou connaître recherche sur les sources de la morale", in which he, the love of self aufstellte as the highest moral principle, which was misunderstood by his opponents as selfishness. End of 1689 was hired as a preacher on the French Savoy Church in London Abbadie. King William then gave him a benefice in Ireland. Even in old age he was active as a writer, he wrote, among other things " La vérité de la religion chrétienne réformée ", " Le triomphe de la Providence et de la religion".

Works (selection)

  • Traité de la divinité de Jésus-Christ, 1689
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