The Academy of Sedan (Fr.: Académie de Sedan) was a Huguenot academy in Sedan in the Principality of Sedan, founded in 1579 and suppressed in 1681. It was one of the main centres for the production of Reformed pastors in France for a hundred years.
The Academy of Sedan was modeled on the Academy of Geneva (which is today the University of Geneva), which was founded by John Calvin in 1559. It was organized by the efforts of Françoise de Bourbon-Vendôme, Princess of Sedan, daughter of Louis III de Bourbon, Duke of Montpensier and wife of Henri-Robert de La Marck, Prince of Sedan (the first Prince of Sedan) in 1579. It was initially known as the College of Sedan (Collège de Sedan). In 1601, the National Synod of the Reformed Church of France, meeting in Jargeau, voted to transform the College of Sedan into its Academy for the training of pastors. The Academy of Sedan was suppressed in 1681 as part of Louis XIV's anti-Protestant measures that would climax in the 1685 Edict of Fontainebleau.
Mathieu Béroalde, professor of Hebrew, 1573–74Louis Cappel de Montgemberg, professor of Theology, 1576Immanuel Tremellius, professor of Hebrew, 1576–79Austrius Calabrinus, professor of Philosophy, 1579Jacques Cappel, professor of Hebrew, 1594Moïse Quadratus, professor of Physics, 1594Robert de Visme, professor of Philosophy, 1594Giulio Pace, professor of Law, 1595Augustin Caillet, 1608–24Charles Bordelius, 1624–30Jean Daubert, 1630–44Claude Pithoys, 1663J. J. Burkhart, 1673–75Pierre Billot, 1675Toussaint Berchet, 1602-24 (Berchet played a large role in the organization of the Academy in 1601)Didier Héraut, 1602Gautier Donaldson, 1603–09Samuel Néran, 1608–11Jacob Roussel, 1614Jean Brazi, 1629–51José Le Vasseur, 1646–71Jacques Du Rondel, 1654Jacques Cappel, 1602–24Jean Huttenius, 1613Alexandre Colvill, 1619–43Abraham Rambour, 1620–51Josué Levasseur, 1646–61Abraham Colvill, 1661–67Pierre Jurieu, 1674–81Daniel Tilenus, 1602–19Jacques Cappel, 1602–24Aaron Blondel, 1603–05André Melvin, 1611–19Abraham Rambour, 1620–54Pierre Du Moulin, 1621–58Samuel Maresius, 1625–36Alexandre Colvill, 1619–43Louis Cappel, 1633–58Le Blanc de Beaulieu, 1645–75Abraham Colvill, 1658–67José Le Vasseur, 1646–71Alpée de Saint-Maurice, 1660–81Paul Joly, 1673–76Henri Sacrelaire, 1676–81Pierre Jurieu, 1673–81Pierre Trouillard, 1676–80Jakob Abbadie, 1680–81John Cameron, 1602–04Arthur Johnston, 1606–23Claude Pithoys, 1633–75Joseph Pithoys, 1655Adam Steuart, 1622–28P. Bisterfeld, 1624–26Alexandre Colvill, 1627–46Étienne Brazi, 1661–81Pierre Jurieu, 1671–81Pierre Bayle, 1675–81Jean Brazi, 1664Jacques Du Rondel, 1664–81Jean de Vesle, 1605Richard Doussert, 1613Abraham Colvill, 1661–67Gautier Donaldson, 1608Abraham Du Han, 1640–53Alexandre Colvill, 1619–43De Saint-Martin 1613Du Gast 1680Baron 1681Legrand 1681-1685also influential was the engineer Jean Errard, who taught in the military academyNicolas AntoineJacques BasnagesSamuel BochartAbraham de MoivrePierre Du MoulinCharles DrelincourtNicasius le FebureJacques Le Paulmier de GrentemesnilJacques Moisant de BrieuxCharles de Sainte-Maure, duc de MontausierPierre Du PratSimon Gaschierthe nephews of Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon and Countess Elisabeth of Nassau:the sons of Countess Louise Juliana of Nassau: Frederick V, Elector Palatine and his younger brother Ludwig Philipp of Pfalz-Simmern-Kaiserslauternthe son of John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg: John VII, Count of NassauJoachim Sigismund of Brandenburg, son of John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg