Gonthier, Francois Auguste Alphonse

Gonthier, Francois Auguste Alphonse a Protestant theologian, was born at Yverdon, December 21, 1773. He studied at Lausanne, was in 1805 pastor at Nimes, and died at Nyons in 1834. He published, Lectures Chretiennes (1824): — Melanges Evangeliques: — Lettres Chretiennes: — Petite Bibliotheque des Peres de l'Eglise. See Montet, Dict. des Genevois et des Vaudois, etc. (Lausanne, 1877); Archives du Christianisme (1834); Bibliotheque Universelle (1861); Lichtenberger, Encyclop. des Sciences Religieuses, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 2:335. (B.P.)