Academy of Sedan

As of the medium of, the Synodes of the reformed Churches were concerned with the training of the pastors, exhorting the Churches to open colleges, and universities or “academies” on the model of the academy founded by Calvin with Geneva in 1559.

The future French pastors could be also formed with the academy of Geneva or in four other academies located on territories bordering on the kingdom: Nimes, Orthez, Orange and Sedan.

History of the academy of Sedan

1579 : opening of a college, on the initiative of Francoise of Bourbon-Vendôme, widow of Henri-Robert of Marck.
1601 : the national Synode of Gergeau supports the development of the college as academy (though the Principauté of Sedan was attached to the France only in 1642, the Church and the academy of Sedan was thus precociously integrated in the synodal network of ERF).
1681 : removal of the academy.

Famous professors

Before the organization of the Academy

Mathieu Béroalde (chronology) 1573-Oct. seven, 1574
Louis Cappel de Montgemberg (theology) 1576
Emmanuel Tremellius (Hebrew) 1576-1579
Austrius Calabrinus (philosophy) 1579
Jacques Cappel (Hebrew) 1594
Quadratus Brace (physical) 1594
Robert de Visme (philosophy) 1594
Julius Pacius (right) 1595

Pulpit of right (a pulpit of jurisprudence)

Augustin Caillet 1608-1624
Charles Bordelius 1624-1630
Jean Daubert 1630-1644
Claude Pithoys 1663
J.J. Burkhart 1673-1675
Pierre Block 1675

Greek (one or two pulpits according to the times)

All Saints' day Berchet (true creator of the College) 1602-1624
Didier Herald 1602
Gautier Donaldson 1603-1609
Samuel Néran 1608-1611
Jacob Roussel 1614
Jean Brazi 1629-1651
Jose Vasseur 1646-1671
Jacques Of Rondel 1654

Hebrew (a pulpit)

Jacques Cappel 1602-1624
Jean Huttenius 1613
Alexandre Colvill 1619-1643
Abraham Rambour 1620-1651
Josué Levasseur 1646-1661
Abraham Colvill 1661-1667
Pierre Jurieu 1674-1681

Theology (three pulpits)

Daniel Tilenus 1602-1619
Jacques Cappel 1602-1624
Aaron Blondel 1603-1605
Andre Melvin 1611-1619
Abraham Rambour 1620-1651
Pierre Dumoulin (of 1621 with 1658)
Samuel Desmarets or Of Marets 1625-1636
Alexandre Colvill 1619-1643
Louis Cappel 1633-1658
the White of Beaulieu 1645-1675
Abraham Colvill 1658-1667
Josué Vasseur 1658-1672
Alpée of Saint-Maurice 1660-1681
Paul Jolly 1673-1676
Henri Sacrelaire 1676-1681
Pierre Jurieu (of 1673 à1681) (teach also Hebrew)
Pierre Trouillart 1676-1680
Jacques Abadie 1680-1681

Philosophy (two pulpits)

John Cameron 1602-1604
Arthur Johnston 1606-1623
Claude Pithoys 1633-1675
Joseph Pithoys 1655
Adam Stevart 1622-1628
P. Bisterfeld 1624-1626
Alexandre Colvill 1627-1646
Etienne Brazi 1661-1681
Pierre Jurieu 1674-1681
Pierre Bayle (of 1675 with 1681)

Eloquence (Latin; a pulpit)

Jean Brazi 1664
Jacques Of Rondel 1664-1681

Mathematics (a pulpit)

Jean de Vesle 1605
Richard Doussert 1613
Abraham Colvill 1661-1667

Physics (a pulpit)

Gautier Donaldson 1608
Abraham Of Han 1640-1653
Alexandre Colvill 1619-1643

Directors of the academy of the exercises (military academy)

Of Saint Martin's day 1613
Of Gast 1680
Baron 1681
Legrand 1681-1685
let us add one of the most influential professors of this academy: the engineer Jean Errard

Famous pupils

Nicolas Antoine
Jacques Basnage de Beauval
Samuel Bochart
Pierre Dumoulin
Charles Drelincourt
Nicaise Febvre
Jacques Paulmier de Grentemesnil
Jacques Bracing of Brieux
Charles of Holy-Moor, duke of Montausier
Pierre Of Prat
Simon Gaschier
nephews of Henri of the Tower of Auvergne and Elisabeth de Nassau: Louis Philippe of Palatinat, godfather of the bastion of Palatinat and his/her older brother Frederic V of Palatinat, wire of Louise-Juliana of Orange-Nassau and Jean de Nassau-Dillenbourg (1590-1653), wire of Jean VI of Nassau-Dillenbourg.
Joachim de Brandebourg wire of Jean III Sigismond de Brandebourg

References

Pierre-Daniel Bourchenin, Study on the Protestant academies in France with the , Paris, Grassart, 1882

Sources

Pierre Congar, Jean Lecaillon and Jacques Rousseau, Sedan and the country sedanais, twenty centuries of history , Paris, Guénégaud, 1969; Marseilles, Laffitte Reprints, 1978

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