Bridel, Philippe Louis Justin

BRIDEL, brî´´del´, PHILIPPE LOUIS JUSTIN: Swiss Protestant; b. at Lausanne Nov. 27,1852. He was educated at the Academy (now the University) of his native city and in the theological faculty of the Free Church of the same institution, being graduated from the former in 1870 and from the latter in 1876. He also studied at the University of Göttingen, and after the completion of his education held successive pastorates in the Canton of Vaud (1875–78), Paris (1879–87), and Lausanne (1887–94). Since 1894 he has been professor of philosophy and the history of theology in the theological faculty of the Free Church at Lausanne. He has been associate editor of the Revue de théologie et de philosophie since 1895 and of the Liberté chrétienne since 1898. In theology he is, to a certain extent, a follower of C. Secrétan and A. R. Vinet, and has written La Philosophie de la religion d’Immanuel Kant (Lausanne, 1876); La Palestine illustrée (4 vols., 1888–91); Roger Holland, pasteur à Paris (1902); and Charles Renouvier et la philosophie (1905).