Edmond Dehoult De Pressense, a French theologian, born in Paris, Jan. 7,1824. He studied at Lausanne under Vinet, attended lectures in Berlin and Halle, and in 1847 assumed the charge of a free Protestant chapel in Paris. In 1871 he was elected as a republican to the national assembly. He belongs to the conservative branch of French Protestantism. His principal works are: Histoire des trois premiers siedes de VEglise chretienne (4 vols., Paris, 1858-61); Jesus-Christ, son temps, sa vie et ses ceuvres (3d ed., 1866); Le concile du Vatican (1872); La liberie religieuse en Europe en 1870 (Paris, 1874); and La vie morale des premiers chretiens (1875). The first two works have been translated into German and other languages. He has also published several volumes of sermons, essays, and controversial treatises, and translated Neander's commentary on the Epistle to the Philippians, and is the chief editor of the Revue chretienne, which he founded. - His wife, a Swiss lady, has written several books for the young (1854-'61).