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See also:LENFANT, JACQUES (1661–1728) , See also:French See also:Protestant divine, was See also:born at Bazoche in La See also:Beauce on the 13th of See also:April 1661, son of See also:Paul Lenfant, Protestant pastor at Bazoche and after-wards at See also:Chatillon-sur-Loing until the revocation of the See also:edict of See also:Nantes, when he removed to See also:Cassel. After studying at See also:Saumur and See also:Geneva, Lenfant completed his theological course at See also:Heidelberg, where in 1684 he was ordained See also:minister of the French Protestant 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, and appointed See also:chaplain to the See also:dowager electress See also:palatine. When the French invaded the See also:Palatinate in 1688 Lenfant withdrew to See also:Berlin, as in a See also:recent See also:book he had vigorously attacked the See also:Jesuits. Here in 1689 he was again appointed one of the ministers of the French Protestant church; this See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office he continued to hold until his See also:death, ultimately adding to it that of chaplain to the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, with the dignity of Consistorialrath. He visited See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland and See also:England in 1707, preached before See also:Queen See also:Anne, and, it is said, was invited to become one of her chaplains. He was the author of many See also:works, chiefly on church See also:history. In See also:search of materials he visited See also:Helmstedt in 1712, and See also:Leipzig in 1715 and 1725. He died at Berlin on the 7th of See also:August 1728.
An exhaustive See also:catalogue of his publications, See also:thirty-two in all, will be found in J. G. de Chauffepie's Dictionnaire. See also E. and S. Haag's See also:France Protestante. He is now best known by his Histoire du concile de See also:Constance (See also:Amsterdam, 1714; 2nd ed., 1728; See also:English trans., 1730). It is of course largely dependent upon the laborious See also:work of See also:Hermann von der See also:Hardt (1660–1746), but has See also:literary merits See also:peculiar to itself, and has been praised on all sides for its fairness. It was followed by Histoire du concile de Pise (1724), and (posthumously) by Histoire de la guerre See also:des See also:Hussites et du concile de Basle (Amsterdam, 1731; See also:German See also:translation, See also:Vienna, 1783–1784). Lenfant was one of the See also:chief promoters of the Bibliotheque Germanique, begun in 1720; and he was associated with See also:Isaac See also:Beausobre (1659–1738) in the preparation of the new French translation of the New Testament with See also:original notes, published at Amsterdam in 1718.
End of Article: LENFANT, JACQUES (1661–1728)
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