Jean Claude

Jean Claude ( * 1619 in La Sauvetat -du -Dropt at Agen; † January 13, 1687 in The Hague ) was a French Reformed theologian.

1654 he was appointed as pastor and professor in Nîmes, but condemned both here and in Montauban by the government to silence. He then went to Paris, where he became known for his apologetic works against Catholic opponents, especially through his four-volume Défense de la Reformation, which was published in Rouen in 1673. From 1666 he held the pastorate of Charenton near Paris. With the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 he was ordered to leave France within 24 hours, and went to the Hague, where he wrote the Plaintes of protestantes cruellement opprimés dans le royaume de France (Cologne 1686).

All his works were published in 1688 in five volumes under the title of a posthumous oeuvre de Jean Claude in Amsterdam. At Claude's students included Jean Frédéric Ostervald.