Adolphe Monod, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Adolphe Monod

French Protestant churchman

Date of Birth: 21-Jan-1802

Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Date of Death: 06-Apr-1856

Profession: pastor, theologian

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Adolphe Monod

  • Adolphe-Louis-FrĂ©dĂ©ric-ThĂ©odore Monod (21 January 1802 – 6 April 1856) was a French Protestant churchman.
  • His elder brother was FrĂ©dĂ©ric Monod.He was born in Copenhagen, where his father, Jean Monod (Sept.
  • 5, 1765 – April 23, 1836; himself the eldest son of pastor Gaspard JoĂ«l Monod /1717-1782/ and his wife Suzanne Madeleine Puerari /1739-1799/), was a pastor of the French Reformed church and where Jean Monod met his wife and consequently Adolph's mother, Louise-Philippine de Coninck (1775-1851).
  • Educated at Paris and Geneva, Adolph began his life-work in 1825 as founder and pastor of a Protestant church in Naples, moving to Lyon in 1827.
  • Here his evangelical preaching, and especially a sermon on the duties of communicants (Qui doit communier?), led to his deposition by the Catholic Minister of education and religion.
  • Instead of leaving Lyon he began to preach in a hall and then in a chapel.On 2 September 1829 he married Hannah Honyman (1799-1868) in Lyon.
  • They had seven children, including pastor AndrĂ© John William Honyman Monod (1834–1916), philanthropist and feminist Alexandrine Elisabeth Sarah Monod (1836–1912), Émilie Monod, Camille Monod (1843–1910). In 1836 he took a professorship in the theological college of Montauban, removing in 1847 to Paris as preacher at the Oratoire.
  • He died in Paris on 6 April 1856.Monod was considered by some the foremost Protestant preacher of 19th-century France (e.g.
  • Guillaume Guizot (1833-1892), son of the French statesman and Protestant historian François Guizot (1787-1874) referred to him in an article published in the “Journal des dĂ©bats politiques et littĂ©raires” (Journal of political and literary debates) on April 11, 1856, i.e.
  • a few days after Adolphe Monod's funeral, as "one of the foremost Christian speakers of his time." He published three volumes of sermons in 1830, another, La CrĂ©dulitĂ© de l'incrĂ©dule in 1844, and two more in 1855.
  • Two further volumes appeared after his death.
  • One of his most influential books was the posthumous, Les Adieux d'Adolphe Monod Ă  ses Amis et Ă  l'Église (1857).

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