Auguste Sabatier

Louis Auguste Sabatier (French: [sabatje]; October 22, 1839 – April 12, 1901),French Protestant theologian, was born at Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, Ardèche, in the Cévennes.

He was educated at the Protestant theological faculty of Montauban as well as at the universities of Tübingen and Heidelberg.

After holding the pastorate at Aubenas in Ardèche from 1864 to 1868, he was appointed professor of reformed dogmatics at the theological faculty of Strasbourg. His markedly French sympathies during the War of 1870 led to his expulsion from Strassburg in 1872. After five years' effort he succeeded in establishing a Protestant Faculty of Theology in Paris (today: Faculté de théologie protestante de Paris) along with Eugène Ménégoz, and became professor and then dean. In 1886, he became a teacher in the newly founded religious science department of the École des Hautes Etudes at the Sorbonne.

His brother, Paul, was a noted theological historian.

Among Louis Auguste Sabatier's chief works were:

These works show Sabatier as "at once an accomplished dialectician and a mystic in the best sense of the word".

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