Isaac de Beausobre (8 March 1659 – 5 June 1738) was a French Protestant churchman and pioneer of modern studies of Manicheism.
Beausobre was ordained at the age of 22. He married twice. His son from his first wife became a theologian and pastor, while his son from his second wife became a philosopher and political economist.
His church was forcibly closed after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, soon he was compelled to flee. In 1694, he administered to the city's large French community in Berlin as a pastor.
Beausobre wrote a collection of sermons, essays on problems of Protestant doctrine and Reformation history, and contributed to an annotated French translation of the New Testament. READ MORE