![]() After presiding for five years over the French Protestant church at Hamburg, he was, in 1823, called to become pastor of a congregation in Brussels and preacher to the court. At Berlin he received stimulus from teachers so unlike as J. When in 1817 he went abroad to further his education, Germany was about to celebrate the tercentenary of the Reformation and thus early he conceived the ambition to write the history of that great epoch. ![]() He was profoundly influenced by Robert Haldane, the Scottish missionary and preacher who visited Geneva. Jean Henri was destined by his parents to a commercial life but at college he decided to be ordained. The ancestors of his father, Aimé Robert Merle d’Aubigné (1755–1799), were French Protestant refugees. ![]() AUBIGNÉ, JEAN HENRI MERLE D’ (1794–1872), Swiss Protestant divine and historian, was born on the 16th of August 1794, at Eaux Vives, near Geneva. ![]()
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