Theodore Beza: Quick Facts


Facts

Also Known As Théodore de Bèze
Born June 24, 1519 • Vézelay • France
Died October 13, 1605 (aged 86) • Geneva • Switzerland
Notable Works “De jure magistratum” • “Juvenilia”
Subjects Of Study Calvinism
Role In Reformation

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Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus, shown in dark robes and cap, writing with a quill at a desk, after Quinten Massijs, oil on panel, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
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Christiern Pedersen
Danish humanist
John Calvin
John Calvin
French theologian
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Maximus Planudes
Byzantine scholar and theologian
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Philoxenus of Mabbug
Syrian bishop
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Godfrey of Saint-Victor
French philosopher
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Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples
French humanist and theologian
George Buchanan, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist after a portrait by Arnold Bronkhorst, 1581; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
George Buchanan
Scottish writer and educator
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
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Theodulf of Orléans
bishop and poet
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Gudbrandur Thorláksson
Icelandic bishop and scholar
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Hieronymus Emser
German theologian
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Joachim Camerarius
German scholar and theologian
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William Salesbury
Welsh lexicographer
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Julius Caesar Scaliger
French scholar
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St. Hilary of Poitiers
bishop of Poitiers
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Florent Chrestien
French author
Abauzit, detail of an oil painting by Robert Gardelle, 1741; in the Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire, Geneva
Firmin Abauzit
French theologian
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Alain de Lille
French theologian