Réville, ALBERT, a French Protestant theologian, was born at Dieppe, November 4, 1826, studied at Geneva and Strasburg, and was pastor of the Walloon Church at Rotterdam in 1851-72. Then he lived near Dieppe until his call in 1880 to the chair of the History of Religions in the College of France.
His numerous books include Manuel d'Histoire comparée de la Philosophie et de la Religion, based on Scholten (1859; Eng. trans. 1864); De la Rédemption (1860); Essais de Critique Religieuse (1860); Manuel d'Instruction Religieuse (1863); Histoire du Dogme de la Divinité de Jésus Christ (1869; Eng. trans. 1870); Prologomènes de l'Histoire des Religions (1881; Eng. trans. 1884); The Native Religions of Mexico and Peru (the Hibbert Lectures for 1884); Les Religions des Peuples Non-civilisés (1883); and La Religion Chinoise (1889).