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See also:OSTERVALD, See also:JEAN See also:FREDERIC (1663–1747) , Swiss See also:Protestant divine, was See also:born at See also:Neuchatel on the 25th of See also:November 1663. He was educated at See also:Zurich and at See also:Saumur (where he graduated), studied See also:theology at See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans under See also:Claude Pajon, at See also:Paris under Jean Claude and at See also:Geneva under See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis Tronchin, and was ordained to the See also:ministry in his native See also:place in 1683. As preacher, pastor, lecturer and author, he attained a position of See also:great See also:influence in his See also:day, he and his See also:friends, J. A. See also:Turretin of Geneva and S. Werenfels (1657–1740) of See also:Basel, forming what was once called the " Swiss triumvirate." He was thought to show a leaning towards Socinianism and Arminianism. He died on the 14th of See also:April 1747.
His See also:principal See also:works are Traite See also:des See also:sources de la corruption qui regne aujourd'hui parmi See also:les Chretiens (1700), translated into See also:English, Dutch and See also:German, practically a plea for a more ethical and less doctrinal type of See also:Christianity; Catechisme ou instruction clans la See also:religion chretienne (1702), also translated into English, Dutch and German; Traite contre l'impurete (1707); Sermons sur See also:divers textes (1722—1724); Theologiae compendium (1739); and Traduction de la See also:Bible (1724). All his writings attained great popularity among See also:French Protestants; many were translated into various See also:languages; and " Ostervald's Bible," a revision of the French See also:translation, in particular, was See also:long well known and much valued in See also:Britain.
End of Article: OSTERVALD, JEAN FREDERIC (1663–1747)
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