Editing Louis Segond (section)

==Biography==
Segond's family was of modest wealth; his father was a [[Catholicism|Catholic]] shoemaker while his mother was a [[Protestantism|Protestant]] church of Geneva member, the denomination he would be baptized into.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Amsler |first=Frédéric |date=21 April 2022 |title=Louis Segond, traducteur de la Bible |trans-title=Louis Segond, Translator of the Bible |url=http://protestjolimont.skynetblogs.be/post/2958017/louis-segond-traducteur-de-la-bible |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fprotestjolimont.skynetblogs.be%2Fpost%2F2958017%2Flouis-segond-traducteur-de-la-bible#& |archive-date=24 February 2011 |website=Histoire du Protestantisme à Jolimont}}</ref> He entered into the [[University of Geneva]] in 1826, where he studied natural sciences. Afterward, he joined the theological department of the [[University of Strasbourg]]. During that time, he spent a year and a half working in Bonn and another year in [[Eisenach]]. In 1839, he became pastor of the Genevan Church in [[Chêne-Bougeries]]. 

In 1871, he returned to the University of Geneva to become a professor studying the Old Testament. The translation of the [[Old Testament]], commissioned by the ''Vénérable Compagnie des Pasteurs de Genève'', was published in two volumes in 1871. It was at this time that he began to work on his translation, work that would be completed in 1880. A revised edition was commissioned for and published by the [[British and Foreign Bible Society]] in 1910.