Pressensé, Edmond de, eminent French Protestant theologian, born at Luasanne, in Paris; studied under Vinet and Neander at Berlin; became Protestant minister in Paris; was elected a deputy in the National Assembly in 1871, and a senator in 1883; wrote a “Life of Christ,” and on numerous subjects of theological and ecclesiastical interest (1824‒1891).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Press-Gang * Prester, John