Jacques Reclus (27 July 1796 – 8 April 1882) was a French Protestant minister.1
Life
Following studies in Bordeaux, he worked as a librarian at Château de Bonzac, home of Elie Decazes (1780-1860), minister of Louis XVIII. From 1819 he studied theology in Montauban, becoming ordained as pastor at Nimes in December 1821. Afterwards he served as a minister in La Roche-Chalais (1822), then Montcaret (1824). He became the president of the Consistoire de Montcaret (Dordogne).2
Reclus taught ancient languages at the Protestant college in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande.3
In June 1831 he resigned as pastor and instructor at the Protestant college in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande in order to head an independent evangelical community in Castétarbe.4 In 1850 he founded a home for the aged in Orthez.
Family
Reclus was the father of fourteen children who survived beyond infancy, including five sons who gained distinction during their careers.5
- Élie Reclus (1827-1904), journalist and political activist
- Élisée Reclus (1830-1905), geographer and political activist
- Onésime Reclus (1837-1916), geographer
- Armand Reclus (1843-1927), geographer and explorer
- Paul Reclus (1847-1914), surgeon
Publications
- Scènes d’une pauvre vie; Pau 1858.
References
References
- Fleming, Marie (1988). The Geography of Freedom: The Odyssey of Élisée Reclus. Montréal: Black Rose Books. p.27
- Cadier-Rey, G. (2013). Le pasteur Jacques Reclus (1796-1882) en quelques lettres. Bulletin de La Société de l’Histoire Du Protestantisme Français (1903-2015), 159, 199–212. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24310053
- Cadier-Rey, G. (2013). Le pasteur Jacques Reclus (1796-1882) en quelques lettres. Bulletin de La Société de l’Histoire Du Protestantisme Français (1903-2015), 159, 199–212. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24310053
- Cadier-Rey, G. (2013). Le pasteur Jacques Reclus (1796-1882) en quelques lettres. Bulletin de La Société de l’Histoire Du Protestantisme Français (1903-2015), 159, 199–212. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24310053
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Reclus, Jean Jacques Elisée". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 957–958.
- Les Protestants by André Encrevé (biography in French)
- Parts of this article are based on an equivalent article at the French Wikipedia, namely: Bulletin du Centre d’Étude du Protestantisme Béarnais, numéro 40 ; décembre 2006.