Louis Segond (3 May 1810 – 18 June 1885) was a Swiss theologian who translated the Bible into French from the original texts in
Hebrew
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and
Greek
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.
He was born in
Plainpalais
Plainpalais is a neighbourhood in Geneva, Switzerland, and a former municipality of the Canton of Geneva.
It is mentioned in Mary Shelley's ''Frankenstein'' in chapter 6, volume 1.
Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges' ashes are buried in the cem ...
, near Geneva. After studying theology in
Geneva
, neighboring_municipalities= Carouge, Chêne-Bougeries, Cologny, Lancy, Grand-Saconnex, Pregny-Chambésy, Vernier, Veyrier
, website = https://www.geneve.ch/
Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevr ...
,
Strasbourg and
Bonn
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, he was pastor of the Geneva National Church in
Chêne-Bougeries
Chêne-Bougeries is a municipality in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
History
Chêne-Bougeries is first mentioned in 1270 as ''Quercus''. In 1801 it was mentioned as ''Chêne-les-Bougeries''.
Chêne-Bougeries was inhabited for most of its his ...
, then from 1872, Professor of Old Testament in Geneva.
The translation of the
Old Testament, commissioned by the ''Vénérable Compagnie des Pasteurs de Genève'', was published in two volumes in 1871 (Meusel has 1874 as the publication date), followed by the
New Testament
The New Testament grc, Ἡ Καινὴ Διαθήκη, transl. ; la, Novum Testamentum. (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events in first-century Chri ...
, translated as a private venture, in 1880. The text was then reviewed by experts.
A revised edition was commissioned for and published by the
British and Foreign Bible Society in 1910.
External links
Unabridged book-by-book 1910 revision of Segond's translation of the Biblevargenau.free.fr
Various options for downloading or searchingwww.awmach.org
at www.bibvoice.org
Modern LSG bible app for Android at www.bibvoice.org
Modern LSG bible app for IOS at www.bibvoice.org
Bible Louis SegondBible en français, lecture en ligne.
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Translators of the Bible into French
Writers from Geneva
Swiss Protestant theologians
1810 births
1885 deaths
19th-century translators
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