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REVILLE, ALBERT (1826- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 224 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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REVILLE, See also:ALBERT (1826- ) , See also:French See also:Protestant theologian, was See also:born at See also:Dieppe on the 4th of See also:November 1826. After studying at See also:Geneva and See also:Strassburg, he became in 1849 pastor at Lunerai near Dieppe, and in 1851 of the Walloon See also:Church at See also:Rotterdam, where he remained until 1872. In 1880 he was made See also:professor of the See also:history of religions in the See also:College de See also:France at See also:Paris. Six years later he was appointed See also:president of the See also:section of religious studies in the Ecole See also:des hautes etudes at the See also:Sorbonne. He is one of the leaders of the French school of advanced See also:critical See also:theology. See also:Works.—Besides contributing to the Revue de theologie (Paris), the Revue de l'histoire des religions (Paris), the Revue des deux mondes, the following works are important: See also:Manuel d'histoire comparee de la philosophie et de to See also:religion (1859; Eng. trans., 1864) ; Histoire du dogme de la divinite de Jesus See also:Christ (1869, 3rd ed., 1904; Eng. trans., 1905); Prolegomenes de l'histoire des. religions (1881, 4th ed., 1886; Eng. trans., 1884); See also:Theodore See also:Parker, sa See also:vie et ses ceuvres (1865; Eng. trans., 1865, 2nd ed., 1877); Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as illustrated by the native religions of See also:Mexico and See also:Peru (the Hibbert Lectures " for 1884) ; Jesus de See also:Nazareth (1897, 12th ed., 1906). His son, See also:JEAN REVILLE, was born on the 6th of November 1854, studied at Geneva, Paris, See also:Berlin and See also:Heidelberg, and became professor of patristic literature and secretary of the section of religious studies in the Ecole des hautes etudes at the Sorbonne. In 1884 he became co-editor of the Revue de l'histoire des religions (Paris). His books include: La See also:Doctrine du See also:logos (1881); La Religion a See also:Rome sous See also:les Severes (1886); Les Origines de l'episcopat (1895); and Le Protestantisme liberal, ses origins, sa nature, sa See also:mission (1903; Eng. trans., 1903).

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