Daniel Chamier (1564–1621) was a

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minister in

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, founder of the Academy of Montpellier and author.

Life and work

Chamier was born at the castle of Le Mont, near Mocas and west of

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. His father was from

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and a Protestant convert, a pastor at

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. Daniel studied at the now defunct University of Orange (1365-1793) and at

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under Theodore Beza and Antoine de la Faye (1540–1615), in the period 1583 to 1589. He was ordained minister at

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, and about 1595 succeeded his father at Montélimar.''Schaff-Herzog'' article
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/ref> His provincial synod appointed him deputy to the National Synod at

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, and the gathering at Loudun in 1596. He was involved in drafting the

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, and brought the Edict to the Synod of Montpellier in 1598. In 1601 and 1602 he took part in discussions at Montpellier with the

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Pierre Coton Pierre Coton (7 March 1564, at Néronde in Forez – 19 March 1626, at Paris) was a French Jesuit and royal confessor. Life Coton studied law at Paris and Bourges, entered the Society of Jesus at the age of twenty-five, and was sent to Milan to ...

and Gaultier. In 1603 he presided over the National Synod at Gap, France, where an article was added to the Reformed Confession of faith declaring the

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to be the

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. In 1607

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granted him permission as representative of the Church of

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to establish an academy at Montpellier, and he became professor there. Chamier returned, however, after a short time to Montélimar. In 1612 he became pastor and professor at Montauban. When

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besieged the city in 1621, Chamier sent his students to the walls, and was mortally wounded during the defense.

Family

He was married, his wife's name being Portal. They had a son, Adrien, and three daughters. English actor

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is among his descendants (link partially broken by John Ezechiel Chamier who was born under surname Deschamps but requested to be changed by his uncle Anthony Chamier and ended with Georgette Grace Chamier who married John Charin Wroughton and only Chamier sibling with children)., as well as

Anthony Chamier Anthony Chamier (6 October 1725 – 12 October 1780) was an English official, financier and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1778 to 1780. He was known also as friend of Samuel Johnson. Life From a Huguenot background, Chamier wa ...

, George Chamier, Frederick Chamier, Edward Chamier and John Adrian Chamier.

Works

He was a supralapsarian but differed from

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concerning Christ's descent into hell and

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s. He wrote: * ''Dispute de la vocation des ministres de l'Église reformée'' (La Rochelle, 1589); * ''Epistolæ jesuiticæ'' (Geneva, 1599); * ''La confusion des disputes papistes'' (1600); * ''Disputatio scholastico-theologica de œcumenico pontifice'' (1601); * ''Panstratia Catholica, seu Corpus Controversiarum adversus Pontificios'' (Geneva, 1606); * ''La Honte de Babylone'' (Sédan, 1612); * ''La Jésuitomanie'' (Montauban, 1618); * ''Corpus Theologicum, seu Loci Communes Theologici'' (Geneva, 1653); * ''Journal du voyage de M. D. Chamier à Paris et à la cour de Henri IV. en 1607'' (ed. C. Read, Paris, 1858). Karl Rudolf Hagenbach, ''A Text-book of the History of Doctrines'' vol. 2 (English translation, 1867), p. 171
archive.org

Notes

External links

''Journal du voyage de M. D. Chamier'' at archive.org
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