Bonifas, Francois

Bonifas, Francois a French theologian, brother of Ernest, was born at Grenoble, Oct. 19, 1837. Being very gifted, he obtained, at the age of twenty-nine, the degree of doctor of liberal arts and theology. In 1866 he was appointed to the chair of Church history at Montauban, made vacant by the retirement of the dean of the faculty, M. Montet. He died Dec. 15, 1878, having published, Etude sur la Theodicee de Leibnitz Doctrine de la Redemption

dans Schleiermacher: — Essai sur l' Unite de l'Enseignenent Apostolique.: — Histoire des Protestants de France depuis 1861. A Histoire'des Dogmes was published after his death from his notes and those of one of his pupils, by M. Bois, and also Recueil de Melanges Litteraires et Theologiques, by M. D. Benoit. See Lichtenberger, Encyclopedie des Sciences Religieuses, s.v. (B. P.)