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In Beza's literary activity as well as in his life, distinction must be made between the period of the humanist (which ended with the publication of his Juvenilia) and that of the ecclesiastic. Combining his pastoral and literary gifts, Beza wrote the first drama produced in French, Abrahm Sacrifiant; a play that is an antecedent to the work of ...
Théodore de Bèze. Born: June 24, 1519, Vézelay, France. Died: October 13, 1605, Geneva, Switzerland (aged 86) Notable Works: “De jure magistratum” “Juvenilia” Subjects Of Study: Calvinism. Role In: Reformation.
After studying law at Orléans, France (1535–39), Beza established a practice in Paris, where he published Juvenilia (1548), a volume of amorous verse that earned him a reputation as a leading Latin poet.
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Beza was born in Vezelay on June 24, 1519 to Pierre de Besze and MarieBourdelot. Theodore's mother died when he was only three years old and so hewent off to Paris to be raised by a wealthy uncle. It was here that he wouldreceive training from the brightest minds in the city. In 1528, when he wasnine, his uncle sent him to Orleans to study under Me...
The academy in Geneva was organized in 1558 and Beza now assumed the role ofGreek instructor and in March he also assumed the pastorate of a city church. Hewould also begin to go out and intervene for certain members of the nobility whowere being persecuted for their conversion to Protestantism andthrough his effors he quickly developed a reputatio...
Beza was a model of a pastor and theologian who had a deep love and affectionfor his parishioners — he had a big picture of the sovereignty of God, but healso saw the pastoral implications of such a theology. A great example is in hisresponse to the massacre on St. Bartholomew's day on August 24, 1572. Beginningin Paris, and then spreading througho...
Although Beza produced numerous secular and historical studies, inluding abiography of Calvin, they were all surpassed by his theological productions(contained in Tractationes theologicae). In these Beza appears the perfectpupil or the alter ego of Calvin. His view of life is deterministic and thebasis of his religious thinking is the predestinate ...
Beza has often been maligned by modern historians as a cold-hearted scholar whotwisted the teachings of John Calvin into rigid "high" Calvinism. But thiscouldn't be further from the truth. Beza and Calvin shared an incredibleaffection for one another, such as resembles that of Paul and Timothy or Lutherand Melancthon. Beza was an astute theologian ...
ormation poet Theodore Beza, who published his Poemata Juvenilia in 1548 (aged twenty-nine); and Marc Antoine Muret (1526-85), who, at age eighteen, was already a professor at Auch, and whose Juvenilia appeared in 1553. These three texts were so closely associated that they were bound together in one volume in 1757.22 Heavily influenced by 18.
Theodore Beza (or de Bèze) was born on June 24, 1519, at Vézelay in Burgundy into a family of the lesser nobility. 1 Beza's uncle, Nicholas, who was a member of the Parlement in Paris, was so taken with his nephew that he obtained the parents' permission to bring him to Paris in order to further his education.
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Geisendorf and Maigron briefly discuss die response to Beza's epigrams; a longer treatment of ‘la Querelle des Juvenilia’ will be found in the introduction to Beza's Juvenilia, ed. Alexandre Machard (Paris, 1879), which focuses on the reaction in Europe, although Machard mentions several English writers.
