Charles Lucien Gautier was a Swiss

Swiss (people)

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 theologian

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, born at Cologny

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, near Geneva

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, and educated at Geneva

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, Leipzig

University of Leipzig

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, and Tübingen

Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

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. In 1877-98 he was professor

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 of Hebrew

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 and Old Testament

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 exegesis

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 at Lausanne

University of Lausanne

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, and thereafter honorary professor. He was the president of the synod of the Vaudois église libre in 1885, 1886, 1891, and 1892. He traveled in Palestine

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 in 1893-94 and 1899, and wrote:

• Au dela du Jourdain (1895; second edition, 1896)
• Souvenirs de Terre-Sainte (1898)
• Autour de la Mer Morte (1901)

In addition he translated Ghazali's Ad-Dourra el Fâkhira (1878) and wrote:

• Le sacerdoce dans l'Ancien Testament (1874)
• La mission du prophète Ezéchiel (`1891)
• Vocations de prophètes (1901; in German, 1903)
• Introduction a l'Ancien Testament (1906)
• La loi dans l'ancienne Alliance (1908)
• L'Evangeliste de l'exil (1911)

He also contributed to the Encyclopaedia Biblica

Encyclopaedia Biblica

Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and Religion History, the Archeology, Geography and Natural History of the Bible , edited by Thomas Kelly Cheyne and J. Sutherland Black, is a critical encyclopedia of the Bible. In Theology/Biblical studies, it is often...

(1903)

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