DU BOSE, WILLIAM PORCHER: Protestant
Episcopalian; b. at Winnaborough, S. C., Apr.
11, 1836. He was educated at the University of
Virginia (M.A., 1859), and studied at the Divinity
School at
Camden, S. C., from 1859 to 1861. He
then entered the Confederate Army, first as an adjutant and later as a chaplain, and served throughout the war, after which he was rector of St. John's,
Winnaborough, in 1866--67, and of Trinity, Abbeville, S. C., in 1868-71. Since 1872 he has been
connected with the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., chaplain in 1872-83, professor of
moral theology and New Testament exegesis after
1372, and dean until his retirement in 1908. He
has written Soteriology of the New Testament
(New York, 1892; reissue, 1906);
The Ecumenical Coun cils (1896);
The Gospel an the Gospels (1906); and
The Gospel According to saint Pail
(1907).
DUBOURG, dii"bur', ANNE: French Reformer;
b. at Riom (17 m. n.e. of Puy-de-Dome) c.
1520; d. at Paris Dec. 23, 1559. After pursuing the practise of law, he became, about 1547, professor of
civil law in the University of Orléans. In
1557 he was appointed conseiller-clere
to the Parliament of Paris. In his father's house he became
acquainted with the doctrines of the Reformation,
and at Orléans he had been in close sympathy with
the Reformers, and had made a deep study of the
Scriptures, the Fathers, and early church history
before he embraced the new ideas. In 1558 be be-
gan to frequent the meetings of the Reformed con
gregation in Paris. In the Parliament most of the
younger members inclined toward the Reformation;
and of the older members some of the moat
prominent,
as the president, Barley, and Sesguier,
were in favor of a mild policy against heretics.
There was, however, in the Parliament a party of
extreme Roman Catholics led by Minard, Le Maia
tre, and St. Andr6, and a conflict was not slow in
arising. In order to arrive at some common policy,
the procurator-general, Bourdin, convoked a plen
ary assembly of all the divisions of the Parliament,
in Apr., 1559. When it became evident that the
friends of the Reformation were in the majority,
Minard, Le Maiatre, and Bourdin addressed them
selves directly to Henry II. The king appeared
personally in the Parliament at the head of an im
posing escort, and reproached it for lukewarmness in
respect to the extirpation of heresy. Dubourg replied
in a spirit of fearlessness, arguing that, while the heav
iest transgressions against the divine law were allowed
to gt, unpunished, the Parliament did wrong to
depots its energies to the persecution of believers,
who in the midst of the flames called upon the name
of Christ. Personally incensed at this speech,
which he construed as an allusion to his relations
with Diane of Poitiers, Henry ordered the arrest
of Dubourg. Legally, a member of the Parliament
could be judged only by the Parliament itself.
Nevertheli'es, the king appointed a commission of
Dubourg's bitterest opponents to try the case.
Dubourg appealed successively to the archbishops
of Paris, Sane, and Lyons, but the appeals were not
accepted. An appeal to the pope was still possible,
but Dubourg refused to avail himself of it. The
death of Henry II., July 10,1559, made his situation
still more desperate, as, by the accession of Francis
II., the Guises came into power. All exertions of
his friends, including Coligny, Condb, and the
Elector-Palatine Frederick, who wished him to be
released to take a professorship at Heidelberg, were
in vain. Dubourg presented to his judges a con
fession of faith which was a masterly defense of the
Reformation. Then for a moment he wavered, and
under the influence of certain friends presented a
second confession which was ambiguous, and was
considered a surrender by his opponents; but he
soon retracted, and, declaring his first confession
to be the one which he actually believed, brought
his fate upon himself. The verdict was given Dec.
21, and two days afterward he was etrangled-and
burned.
(Theodor Schott.)
Bibliography:
La Vroys Histoire contenant 1
'iniqus iugsmart at fauaae proc6dure contre Anus Dubourp,
Antwerp, 1561. reprinted in vol. i.
of M6nwires do Conddi,
London, 1743; A. de la
Roohe-Chsadieu.
Histoire des persecutions et rnartpra de E'Epliee de Paris, 1667-80:
Lyons, l6M; Bu?
ktin de 1'Aia
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