Emmanuel Pétavel-Olliff
Dr. Emmanuel Pétavel-Olliff was a Swiss pastor and biblical scholar.
He was son of Abram-François Pétavel, Neuchâtel pastor, pro-Jewish writer and author of the poem La fille de Sion; ou, le rétablissement d'Israël
Pétavel-Olliff wrote an early history of the Bible in France. In 1866 Pétavel-Olliff formed a society in Paris for the publication of a new ecumenical French translation of the Bible which was to include Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and independent scholars. Originally the project had government support and the participation of Catholic scholars, but by the second conference in Paris in 1867 the Catholic scholars had withdrawn and the project was abandoned.
In England Pétavel-Olliff was mainly known for the translation of La fin du mal which presented a Protestant case for conditional immortality.
Works
La fin du Mal Vol.1 .Le problème de l'immortalité Vol.2 translated into English as ; with a prefatory letter by Charles Secrétan. Translation by F. A. Freer. London. 1892.La Bible en France ou Les traductions françaises des saintes Écritures Libraire francaise et etrangere, Paris, 1864.La Loi du progrès 1869l'Egalité chrétienne 1869- "Redeem the Time"Appel aux Chrétiens Boers 1901; Le droit des Anglais dans La guerre du Transvaal et les conditions de la paix. Par un vieux Suisse 1900; "Voice of Alarm"
- 1902