Paul Sabatier

Paul Sabatier 1858-1928, French Protestant clergyman and historian; brother of Auguste Sabatier . Ill health required his withdrawal from the active ministry, and he went to Assisi, Italy; there he studied the life of St. Francis. His subsequent Life of St. Francis of Assisi (1893) was widely translated and has passed through a number of editions. In 1919, Sabatier became professor of Protestant theology at Strasbourg.

Sabatier, Paul (1854–1941) French chemist; jointly with Senderens discovered the process for catalytic hydrogenation of oils to solid fats (1899); Nobel Prize 1912.

Sabatier, Paul (1858–1928), Calvinist pastor and student of St Francis. He held two pastoral cures, but was forced by ill health to give up this work; he devoted the rest of his life to his research. His Vie de S. François (1893; Eng. tr., 1894) depicts Francis' mission as a renewal of the medieval Church in the light of the ‘pure Gospel’; it is brilliant in presentation and penetrating in its psychological understanding. His later work brought to light much new material, though some of his contentions about the primitive sources have turned out to be mistaken.