Gonthier, Francois Auguste Alphonse a Protestant theologian, was born at Yverdon, December 21, 1773. He studied at Lausanne, was in 1805 pastor at Nimes, and died at Nyons in 1834. He published, Lectures Chretiennes (1824): — Melanges Evangeliques: — Lettres Chretiennes: — Petite Bibliotheque des Peres de l'Eglise. See Montet, Dict. des Genevois et des Vaudois, etc. (Lausanne, 1877); Archives du Christianisme (1834); Bibliotheque Universelle (1861); Lichtenberger, Encyclop. des Sciences Religieuses, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 2:335. (B.P.)
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John McClintock was born October 27, 1814 in Philadelphia to Irish immigrants, John and Martha McClintock. He began as a clerk in his father's store, and then became a bookkeeper in the Methodist Book Concern in New York. Here he converted to Methodism and considered joining the ministry. McClintock entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1832 and graduated with high honors three years later. Subsequently, he was awarded a doctorate of divinity degree from the same institution in 1848.WikipediaRead More