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GAUSSEN, See also:FRANCOIS See also:SAMUEL See also:ROBERT See also:LOUIS (1790-1863) , Swiss See also:Protestant divine, was See also:born at See also:Geneva on the 25th of See also:August 1790. His See also:father, Georg Markus Gaussen, a member of the See also:council of two See also:hundred, was descended from an old See also:Languedoc See also:family which had been scattered at the See also:time of the religious persecutions in See also:France. At the See also:close of his university career at Geneva, Louis was in 1816 appointed pastor of the Swiss Reformed See also:Church at Satigny near Geneva, where he formed intimate relations with J. E. Cellerier, who had preceded him in the pastorate, and also with the members of the dissenting See also:congregation at Bourg-de-Four, which, together with the Eglise du temoignage, had been formed under the See also:influence of the See also:preaching of See also:James and Robert See also:Haldane in 1817. The Swiss revival was distasteful to the pastors of Geneva ( See also:Venerable Compagnie See also:des Pasteurs), and on the 7th of May 1817 they passed an See also:ordinance hostile to it. As a protest against this ordinance, in 1819 Gaussen published in See also:conjunction with Cellerier a See also:French See also:translation of the Second Helvetic See also:Confession, with a See also:preface expounding the views he had reached upon the nature, use and See also:necessity of confessions of faith; and in 183o, for having discarded the See also:official See also:catechism of his church as being insufficiently explicit on the divinity of See also:Christ, See also:original See also:sin and the doctrines of See also:grace, he was censured and suspended by his ecclesiastical superiors. In the following See also:year he took See also:part in the formation of a Societe Evangelique (Evangelische Gesellschaft). When this society contemplated, among other See also:objects, the See also:establishment of a new theological See also:college, he was finally deprived of his See also:charge. After some time devoted to travel in See also:Italy and See also:England, he returned to Geneva and ministered to an See also:independent congregation until 1834, when he joined Merle d'See also:Aubigne as See also:professor of systematic See also:theology in the college which he had helped to found. This See also:post he continued to occupy until 1857, when he retired from the active duties of the See also:chair. He died at See also:Les Grottes, Geneva, on the 18th of See also:June 1863.

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work, entitled La Theopneustie ou pleine See also:inspiration des See also:saintes ecritures, an elaborate See also:defence of the See also:doctrine of " plenary inspiration," was originally published in See also:Paris in 184o, and rapidly gained a wide popularity in France, as also, through See also:translations, in England and See also:America. It was followed in 186o by a supplementary See also:treatise on the See also:canon (Le Canon des saintes ecritures an See also:double point de vue de la See also:science et de la foi), which, though also popular, has hardly been so widely read. See the See also:article in See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie (1899).

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