Monod, ADOLPHE

Monod, ADOLPHE, an active theologian of the Reformed Church, was born in 1802 at Copenhagen, the son of a preacher, himself a native of Geneva. He studied at Geneva, and laboured as a preacher at Naples and Lyons, as a professor at Montauban, and again as a preacher in Paris until his death, 6th April 1856. He published sermons and many religious works which were widely popular.—His brother, FREDÉRIC, born 17th May 1794 at Monnaz, in the canton of Vaud, was thirty years a prominent pastor in Paris, and founded in 1849, together with Count Gasparin, the Free Reformed Church of France. He edited until his death, 30th December 1863, the Archives du Christianisme. See Adolphe's Life and Letters (Eng. trans. 1885).