Jean-Edme Romilly
Genevan theologian
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- Doctorate Theology University of Geneva
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jean-Edme Romilly was an 18th-century Genevan theologian and encyclopédiste. Biography The son of the watchmaker, journalist and encyclopedist Jean Romilly, whom he predeceased, his mother was Elizabeth Adrienne Joly and his younger sister was Elisabeth Jeanne Pierrette Romilly . Jean-Edme studied theology until 1763 and was called to the ministry in 1763. Three years later, he was called as pastor of the Walloon church in London but his delicate health not accommodating to the climate, he returned to Geneva and was ordered to serve the church of Chancy. He married Françoise Dorothée Argand , with whom he had a daughter, Marie Joséphine Romilly . In 1770, the Council of State of Geneva granted him his resignation, "retaining him his rank, given his distinguished talents."
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