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From: "Genealogie FRIT(Z)SCHE" <>
Subject: [HWE] AW: The Word 'Protestant'
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 21:42:00 +0200
In-Reply-To: <20021008075641.7140.h010.c001.wm@mail.leroy.ws.criticalpath.net>


Hi Peter

In Europe, at least here in Germany, the understanding of "Protestant" is to
be a member of a confession/church which separated from the Catholic church
during the late middle ages (its my definition; maybe it isn't totally
correct and someone else like Matthias can define this in a better way, but
it shows the rough direction).

So "Protestant" here is a synonym for "to be member of": the Evangelic
church, Evangelic-Lutheran church, United church(Prussia), Free Evangelic
church, Calvinist = German / French / Dutch / Swiss Reformed church,
Anglican church, etc.. Think this was the way the word was used also in
former times, so a member of the French Reformed Church (Eglise Reformee
Francaise, ERF) sometimes was named "Huguenot", or another time
"Protestant", "French Reformed" or even "Calvinist".

The term "Protestant" in my eyes is a term of honor, anyway ...

Take care.

Juergen

P.S.
Wanna thank you all for responding to my question re: Canadian Huguenots -
'twas very helpful and enlightening ...

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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: [mailto:]
> Gesendet am: Dienstag, 8. Oktober 2002 16:57
> An:
> Betreff: [HWE] The Word 'Protestant'
>
<snip>
>
> If that is so, it brings up a situation that is common
> in everyday use of language and the swapping from one
> to another.
>
> Perhaps if a family genealogist or historian saw the
> word 'Protestant' in some obscure document it was
> somehow translated or just mentally converted to the
> word 'Huguenot'. Now if that did happen then who can
> tell some 400 years later if the writer of the document
> was meaning that the paritcular ancestor was
> 'Protestant' or 'Huguenot'.
>
<snip>
>
> Regards,
> Peter Leroy
>
>
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