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See also:FORMEY, JOHANN HEINRICH See also:SAMUEL (1711–1797) , Franco-See also:German author, was See also:born of See also:French parentage at See also:Berlin on the 31st of May 1711. He was educated for the See also:ministry, and at the See also:age of twenty became pastor of the French See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church at See also:Brandenburg. Having in 1736 accepted the invitation of a See also:congregation in Berlin, he was in the following See also:year chosen See also:professor of See also:rhetoric in the French See also:college of that See also:city and in 1739 professor of See also:philosophy. On the organization of the See also:academy of Berlin in 1744 he was named a member, and in 1748 became its perpetual secretary. He died at Berlin on the 7th of See also:March 1797. His See also:principal See also:works are La Belle Wolfienne (1741-175o, 4 vols.), a See also:kind of novel written with the view of enforcing the precepts of the Wolfian philosophy; Bibliotheque critique, ou memoires pour servir a l'histoire litteraire ancienne et See also:modern (1746); Le Philosophe chretien (1750); L'Emile chi-Men (1764), intended as an See also:answer to the. Emile of See also:Rousseau; and Souvenirs d'un citoyen (Berlin, 1789). He also published an immense number, of contemporary See also:memoirs in the transactions of the $erlin Academy.
End of Article: FORMEY, JOHANN HEINRICH SAMUEL (1711–1797)
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