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ALEXANDRE RODOLPHE, a Swiss theologian; born in the Vaud, Switzerland, June 17, 1797. In 1817 he was appointed Professor of the French Gymnas guage and Literature at the Basel Gymnasium, in 1835 at the Basel University, and in 1837 accepted the chair of theology in the academy at Lausanne.
In 1840 he seceded from the National Church, maintaining that there should be no connection between Church and State.
His views on this subject were enforced in his "Essay on the Manifestation of Religious Convictions, and on the Separation of Church and State" (1842). In 1845 he gave up his chair. He was an earnest and eloquent preacher, and wrote "History of French Literature in the 18th Century"; "Studies of French Literature in the 19th Century"; etc. He died in Clarens, on Lake Geneva, May 4, 1847.