Beausobre, ISAAC DE

Beausobre, ISAAC DE, Huguenot preacher and writer, was born at Niort, in Poitou, in 1659, studied theology at Saumur, and after his ordination had charge of a church at Châtillon-sur-Indre. The revocation of the Edict of Nantes, in 1685, obliged him to flee to Holland. In 1694 he went to Berlin, became chaplain of a French Protestant church there, and councillor of the royal consistory. Among his works were an Essai critique de l'Histoire de Manichée et du Manichéisme (1734-9), which Gibbon characterises as a rich treasury of facts and opinions; and along with M. Lenfant, a translation of the New Testament, with notes. He was a chief contributor to the voluminous Bibliothèque Allemande. He died at Berlin in 1738.