Pierre Allix

Pierre Allix (1641 3 March 1717) was a French Protestant pastor and author. In 1690 Allix was created Doctor of Divinity by Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and was given the treasurership and a canonry in Salisbury Cathedral by Bishop Gilbert Burnet. He discovered that Codex Ephraemi is a palimpsest.

Life

Born in 1641 in Alençon, France, he became a pastor first at Saint-Agobile Champagne, and then at Charenton, near Paris. The revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 compelled him to take refuge in London. There he set up a church in Jewin Street, Aldersgate.[1] He was the most celebrated Huguenot preacher of the 1680s in England, closely associated with Charles Le Cène, and known to advocate religious toleration.[2]

In 1690 Allix was created Doctor of Divinity by Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and was given the treasurership and a canonry in Salisbury Cathedral by Bishop Gilbert Burnet.[1]

Allix discovered that Codex Ephraemi is a palimpsest. He died in London.

Works

The numerous works of Allix were in French, Latin, and English. They are chiefly of apologetic character. Against Jacques-Benigne Bossuet he published Some Remarks upon the Ecclesiastical History of the Ancient Churches of Piedmont (1690), and Remarks upon the Ecclesiastical History of the Ancient Churches of the Albigenses (1692), with the idea of showing that the Albigensians were not Manichaeans, but historically identical with the Waldenses. They were as follows:[3]

Title page of An Examination of the Scruples of those who refuse to take the Oaths, 1689

References

  1. 1 2 Larminie, Vivienne. "Allix, Peter". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/407. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. Randolph Vigne; Charles Littleton (2001). From Strangers to Citizens: The Integration of Immigrant Communities in Britiain, Ireland and Colonial America, 1550-1750. Sussex Academic Press. pp. 389–. ISBN 978-1-902210-86-5. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
  3.  Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1885). "Allix, Peter". Dictionary of National Biography 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  4. Pierre Allix (1707). An Examination of Several Scripture Prophecies: Which the Reverend M.W. Hath Applyed to the Times After the Coming of the Messiah. By Peter Allix. R. Burrough and J. Baker. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
  5. Nabil I. Matar, Protestantism, Palestine, and Partisan Scholarship, Journal of Palestine Studies Vol. 18, No. 4 (Summer, 1989), pp. 52-70, at p. 66. Published by: University of California Press on behalf of the Institute for Palestine Studies. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2537497

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Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1885). "Allix, Peter". Dictionary of National Biography 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 

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