The Academy of Sedan (Fr.: Académie de Sedan) was a Huguenot academy in Sedan in the Principality of Sedan, founded in 1579 and suppressed in 1681. It was one of the main centres for the production of Reformed pastors in France for a hundred years.
History
The Academy of Sedan was modeled on the Academy of Geneva (which is today the University of Geneva), which was founded by John Calvin in 1559. It was organized by the efforts of Françoise de Bourbon-Vendôme, Princess of Sedan, daughter of Louis III de Bourbon, Duke of Montpensier and wife of Henri-Robert de La Marck, Prince of Sedan (the first Prince of Sedan) in 1579. It was initially known as the College of Sedan (Collège de Sedan). In 1601, the National Synod of the Reformed Church of France, meeting in Jargeau, voted to transform the College of Sedan into its Academy for the training of pastors. The Academy of Sedan was suppressed in 1681 as part of Louis XIV's anti-Protestant measures that would climax in the 1685 Edict of Fontainebleau.
Famous Professors
Before the Organization of the Academy
Mathieu Béroalde, professor of Hebrew, 1573–74
Louis Cappel de Montgemberg, professor of Theology, 1576
Immanuel Tremellius, professor of Hebrew, 1576–79
Austrius Calabrinus, professor of Philosophy, 1579
Jacques Cappel, professor of Hebrew, 1594
Moïse Quadratus, professor of physics, 1594
Robert de Visme, professor of philosophy, 1594
Giulio Pace, professor of Law, 1595
Professors of Law (one chair)
Augustin Caillet, 1608–24
Charles Bordelius, 1624–30
Jean Daubert, 1630–44
Claude Pithoys, 1663
J. J. Burkhart, 1673–75
Pierre Billot, 1675
Professors of Greek (one or two chairs depending on the time)
Toussaint Berchet, 1602-24 (Berchet played a large role in the organization of the Academy in 1601) Didier Héraut, 1602 Gautier Donaldson, 1603–09 Samuel Néran, 1608–11 Jacob Roussel, 1614 Jean Brazi, 1629–51 José Le Vasseur, 1646–71 Jacques Du Rondel, 1654
Professors of Hebrew (one chair)
Jacques Cappel, 1602–24
Jean Huttenius, 1613
Alexandre Colvill, 1619–43
Abraham Rambour, 1620–51
Josué Levasseur, 1646–61
Abraham Colvill, 1661–67
Pierre Jurieu, 1674–81
Professors of Theology (three chairs)
Daniel Tilenus, 1602–19
Jacques Cappel, 1602–24
Aaron Blondel, 1603–05
André Melvin, 1611–19
Abraham Rambour, 1620–54
Pierre Du Moulin, 1621–58
Samuel Maresius, 1625–36
Alexandre Colvill, 1619–43
Louis Cappel, 1633–58
Le Blanc de Beaulieu, 1645–75
Abraham Colvill, 1658–67
José Le Vasseur, 1646–71
Alpée de Saint-Maurice, 1660–81
Paul Joly, 1673–76
Henri Sacrelaire, 1676–81
Pierre Jurieu, 1673–81
Pierre Trouillard, 1676–80
Jakob Abbadie, 1680–81
Professors of Philosophy (two chairs)
John Cameron, 1602–04
Arthur Johnston, 1606–23
Claude Pithoys, 1633–75
Joseph Pithoys, 1655
Adam Steuart, 1622–28
P. Bisterfeld, 1624–26
Alexandre Colvill, 1627–46
Étienne Brazi, 1661–81
Pierre Jurieu, 1671–81
Pierre Bayle, 1675–81
Professors of Rhetoric (Latin) (one chair)
Jean Brazi, 1664
Jacques Du Rondel, 1664–81
Professors of Mathematics (one chair)
Jean de Vesle, 1605
Richard Doussert, 1613
Abraham Colvill, 1661–67
Professors of Physics (one chair)
Gautier Donaldson, 1608
Abraham Du Han, 1640–53
Alexandre Colvill, 1619–43
Directors of Military Exercises
De Saint-Martin 1613
Du Gast 1680
Baron 1681
Legrand 1681-1685
also influential was the engineer Jean Errard, who taught in the military academy
Famous Alumni
Nicolas Antoine
Jacques Basnages
Samuel Bochart
Abraham de Moivre
Pierre Du Moulin
Charles Drelincourt
Nicasius le Febure
Jacques Le Paulmier de Grentemesnil
Jacques Moisant de Brieux
Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier
Pierre Du Prat
Simon Gaschier
the nephews of Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon and Countess Elisabeth of Nassau: the sons of Countess Louise Juliana of Nassau: Frederick V, Elector Palatine and his younger brother Ludwig Philipp of Pfalz-Simmern-Kaiserslautern the son of John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen: William, Count of Nassau-Siegen Joachim Sigismund of Brandenburg, son of John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg