LA BADIE, JEAN DE ( 74) , French divine, founder of the school known as the Labadists, was born at Bourg, near Bordeaux, on Feb. 13, 161o, the son of Jean Charles de la Badie, governor of Guienne. He held pastorates in Geneva and Lon don, Middelburg and Amsterdam, where he preached in a Separatist church. He had enthusiastic disciples, Pierre Yvon (1646-1707) at Montauban, Pierre Dulignon (d. 1679), Fran cois Menuret (d. 1670), Theodor Untereyk (d. 1693), F. Span heim (1632-1701), and, more important than any, Anna Maria v. Schiirman (1607-78), whose book Eucleria is perhaps the best exposition of his ideas, which included community of goods within the church, the continuance of prophecy, the sanctity of marriage between two believers, the continuous sabbath, etc. The life and separatism of the community brought them into frequent collision with their neighbours and with the magistrates, and in 1670 they accepted the invitation of the princess Elizabeth, abbess of Herford in Westphalia, to Herford. They migrated to Bremen
in 1672, and afterwards to Altona, where they were dispersed on the death of the leaders. There were also small communities in the Rhineland, and a missionary settlement in New York. Jean de la Badie died in Feb. La Badie's works include La Prophetie (1668) , Manuel de piete (1669), Protestation de bonne foi et saute doctrine (167o), Brieve declaration de nos sentiments touchant (167o). See H. van Berkum, De Labadie en de Labadisten (Sneek, 185i) ; M. Gael, Gesch. d. christl. Lebens in der rheinisch-westphiilischen Kirche (Coblenz, 3 vols., ; H. Heppe, Geschichte des Pietismus (Leiden, 1879) ; A. Ritschl, Geschichte des Pietismus, vol. i. (Bonn, 188o) ; W. Goeters, Die V orbereitung des Pietismus ; and especially Peter Yvon, Abrege precis de la vie et de la conduite et des vrais sentiments de feu Mgr. de Labadie, and Anna Maria v. Schiirman, Eucleria (Altona, 1673, 1678).