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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.
The Academy of Sedan, founded in 1579, became one of the chief Huguenot academies. With the death of Guillaume Robert de la Marck in 1588, the principality passed to his daughter, Charlotte de La Marck. In 1591, she married Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, who thereupon assumed her titles, becoming Prince of Sedan and Duke of Bouillon.
Sylvius was sent to the Calvinist Academy of Sedan in the Ardennes region, where he studied philosophy and medicine. He pursued his medical studies in Leiden under the tutorship of Adolphus Vorstius (Adolf Vorst, 1596-1663) and Otho Heurnius (Otto van Heurn, 1577-1652) from 1632 to 1634. Before leaving
The suppression of the Huguenot academy of Sedan by decree of Louis XIV, in July 1681, led the already renowned 34-year-old scholar to emigrate to the United Provinces, together with the theologian Pierre Jurieu (1637–1713), the other of the two most noted Protestant professors then teaching in France.
After completing his studies there and returning to France in disguise as “Bâle” in 1674, Bayle spent a year as a tutor in Rouen and Paris before securing a position in 1675 at the Protestant Academy of Sedan.
Feb 15, 2022 · Abstract. As a teacher of philosophy at the Protestant Academy of Sedan (1675–1681), Pierre Bayle composed a course arranged according to the usual quadripartite schema of the curriculum, logic, ethics, physics, metaphysics. Bayle’s Systema totius philosophiae, however, was not an ordinary textbook in philosophy.
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At the time, there were five colleges that had been promoted to Academies (besides Sedan) : the four mentioned above (Montpellier, Nîmes, Saumur, Sedan), and a more recent at Die. Die. 1596 : creation of a college. 1604 : creation of an Academy (Chairs in Theology, Hebrew, and two in Philosophy). 1684 : the Academy was closed down. Famous ...
