The New Student's Reference Work/D'Aubigné, Jean Henri Merle

D’Aubigné (dō-bēn-yā′), Jean Henri Merle, the great Swiss historian of the Reformation and Evangelical divine, was born near Geneva, August 27, 1794; and died there, Oct. 20, 1872.  He studied theology at Geneva and in Berlin, where he had Neander as his instructor, and for a time held pastoral charges at Hamburg and at Brussels, and at the latter city was preacher to the court.  Returning to Geneva, he became professor of church-history in its theological seminary, and here wrote his famous History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, his History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin and works on Lutheranism and Christianity.  His works on the Reformation have raised a monument to his name.  They, however, are the work, not of a judge, but of an advocate.