Editing Adolphe Monod (section)

==Biography==

Monod was born in [[Copenhagen]], where his father, Jean Monod (1765–1836; himself the eldest son of pastor Gaspard Joël Monod /1717-1782/ and his wife Suzanne Madeleine Puerari /1739-1799/),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.monodgraphies.eu/vie/vie%20familiale/parents/jean-monod_bio_en.html|title=Biography of Jean Monod}}</ref> was a pastor of the French Reformed church and where Jean Monod met his wife and consequently Adolphe's mother, Louise-Philippine de Coninck (1775-1851), daughter of shipowner [[Frédéric de Coninck]].<ref>{{HDS|11281|Jean Monod|author=Gabriel Mützenberg|date=29 August 2007}}</ref> Educated at [[Paris]] and [[Geneva]], Monod began his life-work in 1825 as founder and pastor of a Protestant church in [[Naples]], moving to [[Lyon]] in 1827.<ref name=EB/> 

In Lyon, Monod' preaching, and especially a sermon on the duties of communicants (''Qui doit communier''?), led to his deposition by the Catholic Minister of education and religion.<ref name=EB/> Instead of leaving Lyon he began to preach in a hall and then in a chapel.<ref name=EB/> In 1836 Monod took a professorship in the theological college of [[Montauban]], moving in 1847 to Paris as preacher at the [[L'Oratoire du Louvre|Oratoire]].<ref name=EB/> He died in Paris on 6 April 1856.<ref name=EB/><ref>[http://data.bnf.fr/13003122/adolphe_monod/ Adolphe Monod (1802-1856)] data.bnf.fr.</ref>