Jean-Jacques Juventin
Jean-Jacques Juventin (born with Oak-Borough, in Swiss, the January 24th 1741, died in Chêne the April 8th 1801) is a Swiss Pasteur, author of the Sermons of fire Jean-Jacques Juventin, Pasteur of the church of Chesne close Geneva published in 1802.
In October 1764, it has just finished its studies of theology and leaves its fatherland for a voyage which will lead it to Paris, then in Holland, from where it passes in England. During this formation and pleasure trip, it maintains a regular correspondence with its family, her friends and the Company of the pastors of Geneva. Of this correspondence exchanged for thirteen months fourteen letters came from to us. It is of return to Geneva one year later, in November 1765.
He marries, in 1767, Marguerite Simonde, sister-in-law of Pasteur Jacob Vernes and aunt of Jean de Sismondi; as of the following year will be born the first from their eight children.
Then, it is found Pasteur close to Geneva, with Cartigny between 1769 and 1773, and later in the small village of Oak-Borough, his native village, between 1775 and 1794. It is relieved in 1793 by the Tribunal revolutionary and restored in 1795.
From this period, it is its correspondence with its sons which remained to us and which repésente an invaluable testimony of manners and turpitudes of this time.
| Random links: | William Jones (mathematician) | Remus Lupin | Takanori Gomi | Gilberto Kassab | Jürg Federspiel | Mégacôlon_toxique |