Albert Reville
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Albert Reville (November 4, 1826–October 25, 1906) was a distinguished French Protestant theologian.
He was born in Dieppe. From 1851 to 1872 he was pastor of the Walloon church in Rotterdam. In 1880 he became professor of the History of Religions in the Collège de France, and six years later was made President of the Section des Etudes Religieuses at the Sorbonne, Paris.
He was a prolific writer on such subjects as “The Native Religions of Mexico and Peru” (Hibbert Lectures for 1884), “Religions of Non-Civilised Peoples,” “The Chinese Religion,” etc.
This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.
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