Alfred-Felix Vaucher was a French theologian, church historian and bibliographer. He was a pioneer in the history and study of Seventh-day Adventism

Seventh-day Adventist Church

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Protestant Christian denomination distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the original seventh day of the Judeo-Christian week, as the Sabbath, and by its emphasis on the imminent second coming of Jesus Christ...

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Preaching his first sermon at age 14, Vaucher studied at a church in Paris. In 1903, he was engaged by the Adventist church, to which he devoted an active ministry of approximately eighty years.

Vaucher traveled around Europe

Europe

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, including Switzerland

Switzerland

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 and Italy

Italy

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 as a Seventh-day Adventist

Seventh-day Adventist Church

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Protestant Christian denomination distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the original seventh day of the Judeo-Christian week, as the Sabbath, and by its emphasis on the imminent second coming of Jesus Christ...

 evangelist. He published over 1,100 articles and pamphlets on French church history and wrote two books, L'Histoire du Salut and Le P. Manuel Lacunza

Manuel Lacunza

Manuel Diaz Lacunza S.J. was a Jesuit priest who used the pen-name Juan Josafat Ben-Ezra for his main work on the interpretation of the prophecies of the Bible.- Biography :...

 y Diaz. Vaucher also taught at Saleve Adventist University

Saleve Adventist University

Le Campus Adventiste du Salève, or Saleve Adventist University in English, belongs to the global educational system of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and is affiliated with Partnership of Adventist Colleges in Europe . The university is located about five miles from Geneva across the...

, Collonges-sous-Salève

Collonges-sous-Salève

Collonges-sous-Salève is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It is located very closely to Geneva, Switzerland. Its population is about 3000 . The name of Collonges designates a colony of farmers situated on land granted, along with certain...

, Haute-Savoie

Haute-Savoie

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, a French biblical college, from 1921-1941 and 1945-1983.

He died at age 106.

External links

• Good Teachers Are Forever by Nilton Amorim, Superintendent/President, Quebec Conference, in Canadian Adventist Teachers Network Online Journal, July 1999