Emile Doumergue
French church historian and theologian
About Emile Doumergue
Lived 1844 – 1937 (aged 92). Emile Doumergue was a French church historian, theologian and university teacher.
Émile Doumergue (1844–1937) was a French scholar of John Calvin who wrote the seven volume John Calvin: The Man and His Times, which was published between 1899 and 1927. He was professor of ecclesiastical history at the Theology Faculty of Montauban from 1880 until 1919.
Doumergue portrayed Calvin as the "founder of modern freedoms" and said that the areas where Calvinism was popular were also the areas where democracy established itself.
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French church historian and theologian (1844–1937)
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Emile Doumergue was born on 25 November 1844 in Nîmes.
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Emile Doumergue died on 14 February 1937 in Montauban.
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Emile Doumergue was a church historian, theologian and university teacher.
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Emile Doumergue was French.
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