Scherer

Scherer, EDMOND HENRI ADOLPH, was born in 1815, and educated partly in England. He obtained a professorship of exegesis at Geneva. Here he became closely allied with Vinet and strongly advocated the divorce between Church and State. He edited La Reformation all XIX ^me Siecle, and wrote much in the way of literary criticism. In 1860 he returned to Paris, joined the staff of the Temps, became correspondent of the Daily News, and gained a seat in the Chamber in 1871. He died in 1889.