Death of D’Aubigne

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 12, 1872

Death of D’Aubigne.

The death of the Rev. Jean Henri Merle D’Aubigne, the well-known historian of the Protestant Reformation, accomplished by Martin Luther, is announced. He died at Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Oct. 28. D’Aubigne’s “History of the Reformation” has long been a standard work in this country as well as in Europe. The death of its celebrated author will be mourned by the entire Protestant world. D’Aubigne was born in Geneva, August 16, 1794. He was, therefore, at the time of his death, a little over seventy-eight years of age. He is chiefly known to the English-speaking race by his “History of the Reformation,” and his “The English Republic in the Days of Cromwell,” though he was the author of many other interesting historical books. As a clergyman he had filled a number of high church offices; and was an eloquent, as well as a very learned, preacher. For many years, most Protestant tourists who visited Geneva were wont to make it a point to call upon D’Aubigne.