Louis Rendu

Louis Rendu was born at Meyrin, a small town a mile northwest of Geneva, on 9 December 1789.Mermillod, [https://books.google.com/books?id=l6c9AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA4 p. 4].

He received his priestly education at the Grand Séminaire de Chambéry.Baud & Binz, p. 209. He was ordained a priest on 19 June 1814, and appointed a teacher of belles lettres at the Collège royale de Chambéry.Mermillod, [https://books.google.com/books?id=l6c9AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA5 p. 5]. From 1821 to 1829, he was a professor of Physics.

He was a founding member of the Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Savoie in 1819, along with Alexis Billiet, future archbishop of Chambéry, and the society's permanent secretary.Louis Pillet, Histoire de l'Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Savoie de 1820 à 1860, {{in lang|fr}}, (Chambéry: Impr. savoisienne, 1891), [https://books.google.com/books?id=vIHY54NRNSIC&pg=PA31 pp. 31-35].

His first book, Traité de Physique, was published at Chambéry in 1825.Mermillod, [https://books.google.com/books?id=l6c9AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA6 p. 6]. In 1828, he published Théorie électrique de cristallisation, which was awarded a prize by the Institut de France.Baud & Binz, p. 209. In 1829, the Collège de Chambéry was handed over to the Jesuits, and Rendu was named a canon of the cathedral Chapter of Chambéry.Mermillod, [https://books.google.com/books?id=l6c9AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA7 p. 7].

He was nominated bishop of Annecy by King Charles Albert of Sardinia on 25 August 1842, and approved by Pope Gregory XVI on 27 January 1843.Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VII, p. 77. He was consecrated a bishop in the cathedral of Annecy on 29 April 1843, by Archbishop Alexis Billiet of Chambéry.Mermillod, [https://books.google.com/books?id=l6c9AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA11 p. 11]. As bishop, he chose to send his best priestly students to the University of Turin, to take degrees in Canon Law,Baud & Binz, p. 220. under Giovanni Nepomuceno Nuytz, until Nuytz's views were condemned by Pope Pius IX in his apostolic brief of 22 August 1851.Giacomo Margotti, [https://books.google.com/books?id=kCQ-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA19 Processo di Nepomuceno Nuytz: Professore di Diritto Canonico nell'Universita di Torino,] {{in lang|it}} (Turin: P. De Agostini, 1852), p. 19.

In a diocese which contained around 300 parishes, he built and consecrated 102 new churches.Mermillod, [https://books.google.com/books?id=l6c9AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA14 p. 14].

Bishop Rendu was a Chevalier de l'Ordre du Mérite civil de Savoie, and a Commandeur de l'Ordre des SS. Maurice et Lazare.

Bishop Rendu died on 20 August 1859.Pillet, [https://books.google.com/books?id=vIHY54NRNSIC&pg=PA35 p. 35]. His almoner, François Marie Guillermin, who was present at the death-bed, says it was 21 August.Guillermin, [https://books.google.com/books?id=9wVgAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA167 p. 167].

Rendu was the author of Theorie des glaciers de la Savoie,Louis Rendu, [https://books.google.com/books?id=T3Xx9D3NuTw Théorie des glaciers de la Savoie], {{in lang|fr}}, (Chambéry: Puthod, 1840). an important book on the mechanisms of glacial motion. The Rendu Glacier, Alaska, U.S. and Mount Rendu, Antarctica are named for him.

His ethnological and religious-themed works include:

• De l'influence des Moeurs sur les Lois, et de l'influence des Lois sur les Moeurs, 1833
• Moeurs et coutumes de la Savoie du Nord au XIXe siècle, 1845
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=yogvAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA9 Lettre à S. M. le Roi de Prusse (sur la situation religieuse de l'Europe)], 1848
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=rKRcAAAAcAAJ Des efforts du protestantisme], {{in lang|fr}} Paris: Louis Vives 1855.[http://www.lectura.fr/fr/catalogues/resultats.cfm?reb=1&mode=cat&aut=Rendu%20%20Louis Lectura- Catalogues- Résultats de la recherche]. Review by C. Millé: Bibliographie catholique, {{in lang|fr}}, Volume 15 (Paris: Bureau de la Bibliographie catholique, 1855), [https://books.google.com/books?id=kYTBZddHsaUC&pg=PA160 pp. 160-162].
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=IOIsAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA103 "Mandements et instructions pastorales."] {{in lang|fr}}. Collected in: Jacques-Paul Migne, Collection intégrale et universelle des orateurs sacrés du premier et du second ordre. Volume 85. Paris: A l'imprimerie Catholique du Petit-Montrouce, 1856. Pp. 103-395.

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• Baud, Henri; Binz, Louis (1985). [https://books.google.com/books?id=V0zB6LRDkA0C&pg=PA304 Le Diocèse de Genève-Annecy]. {{in lang|fr}}. Annecy: Editions Beauchesne, 1985. Pp. 209-211.
• Guillermin, F.-M. (1867). [https://books.google.com/books?id=9wVgAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 Vie de Mgr Louis Rendu, évêque d'Annecy.] {{in lang|fr}}. Paris: C. Douniol, 1867. {reprint: Hachette 2016] [eulogistic, pietistic]
• Mermillod, Gaspard (1859). [https://books.google.com/books?id=l6c9AAAAcAAJ&pg=PP1 Mgr. Louis Rendu, évêque d'Annecy: esquisse biographique], {{in lang|fr}}, Carouge: A. Jaquemot 1859.
• {{cite book|last1=Ritzler|first1=Remigius|last2=Sefrin|first2=Pirminus|title=Hierarchia Catholica medii et recentioris aevi ... A pontificatu Pii PP. VII (1800) usque ad pontificatum Gregorii PP. XVI (1846)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pgyItwAACAAJ|volume=VII|year=1968|publisher=Libr. Regensburgiana|location=Monasterii|language=la|author1-link=Remigius Ritzler}}

• David M. Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy.org., [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/brendu.html "Bishop Louis Rendu"]{{self-published source|date=July 2024}}
• Australian Antarctic Data Centre: Maps, charts, and geographic information, [https://web.archive.org/web/20070926233501/http://aadc-maps.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=130682 Mount Rendu]. Retrieved: 30 July 2024.

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