13 October 1605 A.D. Theodore Beza Dies—Calvin’s Successor, Theologian & Anchor of Reformed Theology in Europe
13 October 1605 A.D. Theodore Beza Dies—Calvin’s Successor, Theologian & Anchor of Reformed Theology in Europe Editors. “Theodore Beza.” Encyclopedia Britannica. N.d. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/63792/Theodore-Beza . Accessed 31 May 2014. Theodore Beza , French Théodore de Bèze (born June 24, 1519, Vézelay , France —died October 13, 1605, Geneva , Switzerland ), author, translator, educator, and theologian who assisted and later succeeded John Calvin as a leader of the Protestant Reformation centred at Geneva. 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. On recovering from a serious illness, he underwent a conversion experience and in 1548 traveled to Geneva to join Calvin , then deeply involved with his reforms of Swiss political and e...