THE NEW SCHAFF-HERZOG
REVESZ, IMRE: Hungarian Reformed; b. at Debreczin (116 m. e. of Budapest) Jan. 14, 1826; d. there Feb. 13, 1881. He was educated at Debreczin (1841-51), and after completing his studies at Vienna, Berlin, and in Switzerland, became, in 1856, pastor at Debreczin. In 1861 he was elected to the Reichstag, though he resigned a few months later to devote himself exclusively to pastoral and literary labors. He distinguished himself in the defense of his church, when, in 1856, Leo Thun, the Austrian minister of public worship, drafted a new system of government for the Hungarian Protestants which completely destroyed consistorial independence. Three years later an imperial patent was issued directing the Hungarian Lutherans and Reformed to organize in accordance with the royal charter. Both churches protested, while Re><§sz presented arguments from history to show that the autonomy of the Protestant bodies could not be changed without the consent of their own synods. He likewise addressed a memorial to the foreign powers, which was presented, in English translation, to the British ambassador and printed in The Edinburgh Review (1860). He was a member of the Protestant deputation which unsuccessfully sought to gain audience with Francis Joseph I. in Jan., 1860, and after his return he drew up and published a program for passive resistance to the execution of the obnoxious patent. The program was, however, confiscated by the government, and R6v6sz, among others, was summoned to appear before the civil courts. He now wrote his " Defense of the Hungarian Protestant Church " (Sarospatak, 1862; which appeared in its essential parts in German in the Protestantische KirchenzeUung , 1861). In 1860 the obnoxious patent was withdrawn, and the suits against ReV£sz and other Protestants were quashed.
In 1870 R4v6sz founded the monthly Figyelmezo, which he conducted for nine years, and in this he combated the German Protestant Union (see Protestant Uniox, German). Among his numerous works, all of them in Hungarian, special mention may be made of the following: " Basal Principles of Protestant Church Organization " (Szarvas, 1856); "Jan Erdosi, the Hungarian Reformer " (Budapest, 1859); " Life and Works of the first Hungarian Reformer, Mathias Biro of Deva " (1863); "Calvin's Life and Calvinism" (1864); and a Hungarian translation of the sermons of Frederick William Robertson (3 vols., 1864-69).
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Bibliography: F. Balogh, in The Catholic Presbyterian, London, 1861, pp. 418-427; K. Kuzmani, Urkundenbuch zum osterreichischen evangelischen Kirchenrecht, Vienna, 1856.
REVILLE, re-vil', ALBERT: French Protestant: b. at Dieppe Nov. 4, 1826; d. at Paris Oct. 25, 1906. He was educated in his native city and at the universities of Geneva and Strasburg; was assistant pastor at Nimes'm 1847-48; pastor at Luneray in 1848-51; and of the Walloon church at Rotterdam, 1851-73; professor of the history of religions in the College de France, Paris, 1880-1906, as well as president of the section in the Ecole pratique des hautes Etudes for religious sciences in the same city after
1884. He translated J. H. Scholten's Geschiedenis der godsdienst en wijsbegeerte (Leyden, 1853) under the title Manuel d'histoire comparie de la philosophic et de la religion (Paris, 1861); and wrote L' Authenticity du Nouveau Testament (1851); De la redemption (1860); Essais de critique religieuse (1860); fitudes critiques sur I'Svangile selon Saint Matthieu (Leyden, 1862); Manuel d'instruction religieuse (1863; Eng. transl., London, 1864); TModore Parker, sa vie et ses ceuvres (1865; Eng. transl., London, 1865); Histoire du dogme de la divinity de Jisus-Christ (1869; 5th ed., 1906; Eng. transl., History of the Doctrine of the Deity of Jesus Christ, London, 1870; revised, 1905); Histoire du diable, ses origines, sa grandeur et sa decadence (Strasburg, 1870; Eng. transl., The Devil, his Origin, Greatness, and Decadence, London, 1871); Prolegomenes de I'histoire des religions (1881; Eng. transl., London, 1884); Les Religions des peuples non-civilises (2 vols., 1883) ; The Origin and Growth of Religion as illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru (Hibbert lectures, London, 1884; French transl., Paris, 1885); La Religion chinoise (2 vols., Paris, 1888); and Jisus de Nazareth (2 vols., 1897).
Bibliography: Polybiblion, 1897, pp. 199-203; P. Alphandery, in RHR, 1906, pp. 401-423; Revue chritienne, 1896, pp. 416-417; Vigouroux, Dictionnaire, fase. xxxiv. 1083- 1084.
REVILLE, JEAN: French Protestant, son of the preceding; b. at Rotterdam, Holland, Nov. 6, 1854; d. at Paris May 6, 1908. He was educated at the universities of Geneva, Paris, Berlin, and Heidelberg; was pastor at Sainte-Suzanne (1880-83); teacher of the Evangelical religion in the Lycee Henri Quatre, Paris (1884-86); instructor in church history in the Ecole pratique des hautes etudes, Paris (1886-94); and professor of patristics in the Protestant theological faculty of the University of Paris (1894-1907); succeeded his father as professor of the history of religions in the College de France. He was also editor of the Revue de I'histoire des religions after 1884. Among his numerous works special mention may be made of La Religion a Rome sous les SSveres (Paris, 1884); Les Origines de Vipiscopat (1894); Paroles d'un libre croyant (1898); Le Quatrieme Evangile, son origine et sa valeur historique (1900); Le Protestantisms liberal, ses origines, sa nature, sa mission (1903; Eng. transl., Liberal Christianity, its Origin, Nature, and Mission, London, 1903); and Le ProphMisme h&treu; esquisse de son hist, et de ses destinies (Paris, 1906).
Bibliography: W. Sanday, Criticism of the Fourth Gospel, pp. 2, 28, 31, 200, 256, Oxford, 1905; Journal de Geneve, May 8, 1908; A. Reiyss, in Le Protestant, journal des chrttiens libSraux, 1908, pp. 155-156; RHR, June-July, 1908; Vigouroux, Dictionnaire, faso. xxxiv. 1084.
REVIUS, rS'vi-us, JACOBUS: Dutch theologian; b. at Deventer (8 m. n. of Zutphen) Nov., 1586; d. at Leyden Nov. 15, 1658. He was educated at Leyden (1604-07) and Franeker (1607-10), and in 1610- 1612 visited various foreign universities, particularly Saumur, Montauban, and Orleans. Returning to Holland, he held brief pastorates at Zeddam, Winterswijk, and Aalten in 1613, and by Oct., 1614, had become pastor in his native city, where he remained twenty-seven years. In 1618 he was ap-